Everything was working find and then . . .

[iamjim]

Except for the 2 print statements and the boo statement this same code had been working for a week. Suddenly out of nowhere

the Left function does not work.

mCoords is defined as a String

[LaVolpe]

I think it is working. Looks like you may have a carriage return or double null characters in front of the mCoords string.
This should help definitively prove/disprove it.

Debug.Print Asc(Mid(mCoords, 1, 1)), Asc(Mid(mCoords, 2, 1))

[iamjim]

Never mind. When I copied the line I failed to pickup the last parenthesis

[LaVolpe]

Make sure mCoords is not a zero-length string

[iamjim]

I edited my previous post.

You were right. The thing that seems odd, when I hover over mCoords nothing appears before the dash sign.

FYI it was Google maps that changed, not the program.

[LaVolpe]

FYI it was Google maps that changed, not the program.

The point of failure for any parsing routine: source format changed

[iamjim]

I forgot to thank you