Jasey9 wrote: but to the end user, the array has been resized More properly, the end user gets the illusion of a array resized array. Talking intelligently about the process, as you've no doubt have found in this thread, requires that you understand and use specific descriptions of processes. Even though VB, regretably, hides the true inner workings of such a function, this does NOT relieve the programmer from understanding what is truely going on behind the scenes. This is the one drawback to VB that causes the C, C++, C#, (insert flavor here) programmers to belittle VB programmers, saying that they don't know what they're doing. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008