hey bob, after i cleaned up a few errors and moved some stuff around the code was pretty accurate. My instructor emailed me with 2 more functions to add to it, but i studied what you had showed me and did them in less than 10 minutes. Thx for the help. With the new things that i havent seen before in the code you posted i think im actually a little ahead of my classmates now that i understand them. Im gonna have to keep practicing, but im getting the hang of things. THX.