Thank you very much Melanie.

My project is working now. I now intend to improve my project by connecting it to a pc via serial port. Can I edit the message using a pc's serial port and software like VB? What pic micro will I use? What pbp command will do such that I can save all the characters in the alphabet and retrieve it (say each character represents five bytes) so that i don't have to change the the values in the lookup table every time I want to display a new message.

Sorry if i have so many questions, I'm just eager to learn pic and pbp.

Merry Christmas and A happy New Year!

Thanks.

George