hey guys, i'm sure i'm doin something wrong and i admit to being a "longtime listener firsttime caller"... but i am writing a program that requirese to open an excel file (saved as .csv and then file extension changed to .txt). this is working brilliantly, however, when i output this with the text object into a message box i get each row, with each column entry in that row separated by commas. this is great, but i need to output each item in the list from a separate output. i know that this kind of stuff exists - but i'm havin trouble makin it work. how would you guys do it? thanks, taylor