Define two vars Dim fntBold As Font Dim fntNorm As Font In your form load event: fntBold = New Font(Button4.Font, FontStyle.Bold) fntNorm = New Font(Button4.Font, FontStyle.Regular) and in your button click event: If Button4.Font.Bold() Then Button4.Font = fntNorm Else Button4.Font = fntBold End If Roy.

Christian Graus wrote: My problem is that my IDE won't make me coffee. I'd like that, too. Also, I'd like to telepathically control my IDE :-D Paul

Would you care to read the documentation on the RTB's Find[^] method before asking us to write a bunch of code for you? (Which we won't do, BTW.) We're here to help you with YOUR code, not write it for you. If you've got specific questions about problems you're having, great! You've come to the right place! We'll point you in the right direction so you can learn something while writing your code. If you have other people write it for you, you won't learn anything... RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome -- modified at 10:32 Sunday 12th March, 2006

If you use a RichTextBox or a TextBox, it is very simple. Eg : RichTextBox1.Copy() …….. RichTextBox1.SelectAll() RichTextBox1.Undo() …… RichTextBox1.Find(……..), RichTextBox1.SelectedText = ……………….. chatura

you can use this in both VB.Net 2003 & 2005 If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then Dim newForm2 as New Form2 newForm2.RichTextBox1.LoadFile(OpenFileDialog1.FileName) newForm2.Show() End If chatura

I really don't mean to be bashing your skills, but it sounds like writing an entire IDE is beyond your abilities. Reading/Writing text files are very simple things to do and are usualy covered in the first computer class you ever take. How about scaling this project back a bit to a simple text editor first, maybe something resembling Notepad? Or am I just missing something??? RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Let me get this straight. Your Professor gave you an assignment and your looking for all the source code to do what he wants so you don't have to write it yourself? Is that correct? RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome