Thanks... I ended up solving it some other way (which I can't remember right now since that happened right before my mother in law went into the hospital and you can imagine how crazy my life has been). But thanks for the code -- I'm going to print it out and save it in my VB tips book.

>I am not sure how the Read# works as I have not used it. I wrote some code hoping that I could help you. The code below will read lines from a file (text or otherwise). I set it up using an array which makes it easier to count the number of lines.