Yes, i tried that before. The result was very good, but i had a big problem with the next part, which was to be able to hilite pieces of the text and move the hilite at timed intervals. This is for a reading program which is supposed to pace your reading by moving the hilite from one set of words to the next. It's not very practical to continue to use a picture box...although i did do it and it worked to a certain extent....just not very nicely and occasionally missed a couple of words at the end of a line. I'm trying to rewrite the routine now. I tried JustTexT before, apparently it works by placing spaces in the text...isn't there a way to just make the gaps without the spaces? It's strange that no one else seems to have encountered the same problem to have written an example of it. Everywhere i search, i find people using right, left, and center aligns but they skip the justify align for some reason. I'm really desperate here, i've been trying for a year on this...if you can help, i'd really appreciate it.