Oh, for heavens sake! Put the poor sod out of his misery! In Windows, this refers to the way memory is accessed. 16-bit applications access memory in 16-bit "chunks" (2-bytes). Most DOS and Windows 95 and 98 applications are 16-bit. 32-bit application access memory in 32-bit "chunks" (4-bytes). 64-bit application access memory in 64-bit "chunks" (8-bytes). This means that an integer in 16-bit has a maximum value of 2^15 or 32,768, while the maximum value for an integer in 32-bit is 2^31 or 2,147,483,648, and so on. Please note that you could have got all this information with Google. Try it. Its a wonderful tool! Just do a search on "16-bit definition" and see what jumps out at you!!!! OrcBighter