Staz, Are you advising us to not use the _strResource compile option if we do not intend to translate our code into other languages? I've been compiling with _strResource on because I somewhere got the impression that this was a memory saver. I haven't had any crashes with it, though I have lots of statements like a$ = "Hello". If there are potential problems and no substantial advantages, I will stop using the _strResource compile option. Gary