The string specification in Print Using takes only as many characters of a long string as are required to fill its field length; hence, the rest of the string is ignored. This example: A$ = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" Print Using "3X,10A,3X";A$ returns: abcdefghij A$ is truncated to 10 characters. Use the MID$ function to split up a string into multiple lines.