On 17 January 2002 at 14:15:53, jay.blanchard at thermon.com <jay.blanchard at thermon.com> wrote: jbtc> CHR(10) is a carriage return-line feed. Two of them together indicate the jbtc> end of one paragraph and the beginning of the next. Have I forgotten something? yup! chr(10) is only carriage return, you need to follow it by chr(14) for a line feed. alternatively use the predefined vbCRLF constant, which is exactly the same. hth, darren.