Hi again. I did find a 1999 thread with someone asking about converting a 16 bit counter to displayable ascii, but the response given started by saying "a counter can hold a maximum of 65535, so divide by 10 to get the ones...". I guess the person asking the question didn't really get to use that answer because 16 bit counters can't hold 65535...they hold 1111 1111 1111 1111 ! So anyway I wound up creating my own routine yesterday evening, from two other routines I saw published in other projects. One is to convert from binary to bcd, and then another one from bcd to ascii characters. I was just hoping that someone somewhere had done this before and that he might have had a shorter way or better trick to accomplish it. Thanks anyway!