>I have everything working the way I want now and I really appreciate all your help. I'm having one last issue with the Rich Text Box control though. When I try to load a really big text file into the control the application locks up. Files can range from 20 to 28 megs in size. Any ideas?

Are you sure it's locking up?... How much time do you give it?

If you rely on the Windows "Not responding" message, don't. It's really meaningless, seemingly based on some time interval and nothing more.

I could see a 25MB file in RTF causing SWAP file use, which will slow things down a lot.

Good luck.