Ah, yes I see.  Thank you.  You have definitely put me in the right
direction.  I will begin experimenting with code which determines how not to
highlight the other letters that match regardless of their position.

I did have one other related question though...Can you have different
colored text within one TextBox on a userform.  i.e., the X's in the phrase
would be red while the remaining text is black in the same textbox?

I am doing a comparison between the values of two textboxes on a userform

compare    textbox.value1
with          textbox.value2

And that's only the case where characters have been added to the
original string. Then you need to consider cases where characters have
been removed, or where some have been added and others have been
removed at the same time. And how about transpositions, either of
adjacent characters or of ones separated by one or more characters?

Once you get a decent definition of the rules, then you'll find that
you can't change the font colors for only some of the text in a
regular text box of a userform -- there's only one ForeColor property
for the entire text box. To do what you want, you'll need a Rich Text
control. There isn't one in the set of controls that come with Office,
so you'll have to find one somewhere else. Unfortunately, you can't
use the one that came with VB 6.0, because it's a security risk and is
therefore disabled (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=838010). You
can try this one:
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/download/vb6/ctl_riched.msi

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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