Hi Dave VanHorn, Unfortunately, I'm running Visual Basic 6.0 (SP6) and Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003 but... 1) Could you show the code for the timer's Timer event ('Sub tmrConvert_Timer')? 2) What service pack of Visual Basic 5 are you running? (Help menu ===> About) Best regards, Ken Pergola _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist