Alright I've got a list A and a list B. I would like to be able to save list A and list B into one file, which I could later use a LOAD button to load list A and list B into their repsective places. Basicly I want to be able to save and load the contents of multiple things with one 1 save file. Then later on when I hit a "load" button they place themselves back into there catagories. I'm sure it can be done Im just at a loss for how I would do it. I'm quite a VB6 noob Thank you for all your help, -Nathan "the right to swing my arm ends where your nose begins." -Claude Adrien Helvetius

One solution which perhaps isn't the most efficient would be to write to your file a number indicating the number of items in list A. Then write all the items from list A. Then a number indicating the number of items in list B. Then all the items from list B. Then when you want to load them back, the first thing you read tells you how many items to read into list A. Then the next number tells you how many items to read into list B. Hope that makes some sense!!

How about prefixing each record with 'A' or 'B' or whatever? So when u read the records, if the prefix is 'A', then Laod into List A else List B. :) Samuel Roshan