Help, brain burnout here with Easyhid and words LOL

I want to send a Word value of decimal 1000
I am sending from VB two bytes of data 10 00:

BufferOut(0) = 0
BufferOut(1) = 10
BufferOut(2) = 00

In PBP I am receiving them fine as bytes

Byte1=usbbuffer(0)
Byte2=usbbuffer(1)

Now I want to pop these into a Word Value within PBP code but using

WordData.HighByte=Byte1
WordData.LowByte=Byte2

But it takes the value and stores then as Hex Byte1 gets stored as 0A and Byte 2 gets stored as 00 and hence when I end up with 2560 in Decimal stored and not 1000.

Now the question is, do I have to convert my Decimal 1000 to hex at the VB end and send or can I convert in my PBP code after receiving?.

If using Serial data and Receiving using Hserin I just simply
HSerin [WAIT("$"),DEC4 WordData]
And would love to do that with USB as well!

I am probs missing something so obvious here LOL

Regards

Sean.