Also, as per your use of the Left command there's a small error. The two means that you're grabbing the first two letters from the left. So, if you had the string 'fasdfsd' Left('fasdfsd',2) would give you 'fa'. If you want it to take bits off of your string one by one you would use Left(text,text.length-1) this means that you would be getting back the string minus the last character