>I know there a countless alternate ways of doing this but is there a way to display line breaks tucked inside a memory variable displayed in a window
>I suspect it's one of those 'filetostr strtofile conversions' but i'm having trouble with the syntax
>thanks for your help
>

>mes = 'I need the line break'+chr(13)+'To be displayed in this window'+chr(13)+'any suggestions??'
>activate window temp
>? mes  &&& all I get here is 'any suggestions'
>

Don't use ? to output message. Use messagebox. Also, you may want to try chr(13) + chr(10) instead of just chr(13).