The RTB won't do that. You'd have to write your own version of the control and it won't be easy. The problem is that as your custom drawing your RTB, you have to measure a string in a font size and see how big the resulting bitmap image would be. If it's not big enough, or small enough, you have to create a new Font object to test and call MeasureString again, until you achieve the fit you want. This is complicated by the fact that you still want WordWrap to work... Oh, and the RTB doesn't consider one line of text on screen a single line. A single line of text wraps and keeps wrapping until a line break is hit. So, how many lines of text on screen are in that string?? See the problem?? A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak

I got em right now, i had not set right on the form properties, makes changes there and hope it would work fine now. Thank you guys for your time. zela.

hang_em wrote: but the link mention just open the google page. Yeah, this is where you start your own research and start following those links and reading what they bring up. You will also find examples with some of them. I don't have any examples to give you because I abandoned all VB6 developement, in favor of VB.NET, about 9 years ago. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak

No there is not.... :laugh: There are two ways to solve your problem. The first is to encrypt the entire file, and decrypt the file when you want to read / edit it. Or you can encrypt the string of text which is contained by the file. Have you read this[^] article? It will help you encrypt the entire file. The article on this[^] page helps you encrypting and decrypting a string. Hope it helps! .: I love it when a plan comes together :. http://www.zonderpunt.nl