A lot of people think that you need to encrypt your program changing words and stuff and to hide the passwords for your programs. Well, I think Chr$() is just as good as encryption. Try it! Use a hex editor to get into your program and you will see that there are no words! Only problem about this is, if you want to re-edit your program, you have to figure out what everything is! Unless, of course, your a genius who remember's what all the Chr$()'s are. Is there anybody out there who knows all the Chr$()'s by heart?