Hi, omaha. So you want to start processing the contents of the file when you get to a line that's equal to "1990", and stop when you get to one that has ... well, something else? Sure, shouldn't be a problem. But what do you want to do with the data? In your program you're displaying the line number where "1990" first appears, and that's a start. But once there, do you want to copy the data to another file, save it in an Excel worksheet, display it one line at a time in a MsgBox, what?