That took a lot of time and effort, and that really clarifies a lot of things for me. Everyone has been very helpful and this just adds very special closure.

I did try to debug it in simulation and the conditions that I "expected" where not showing up in hardware. As I stepped into each command, Keil, unless breakpoints were set, blasts right through functions. I do a lot of 32 bit apps with Ollydbg and step into means to execute each instruction line by line unless you step over. Keil doesn't seem to follow this logic. So when I was looking at the ports in Keil, they always seemed to do what I wanted but then the hardware took a dump.

With the newly rewritten code, I am now in the burn in stage on the hardware and I can now sleep at night.....LOL.

Thanks for putting the arrays/strings issue in a clear and concise order.

I have all my phrase running through, user time delay and simple method of modification. I also found out that he wants certain words in the center of the display etc etc......so with the built in manual padding, I have a winner.

:)

Chris