Not sure how you could do it without using gobs of memory other than using external memory like eeprom or FRAM. Maybe you could put the word into an array and use a lookup on the external memory to give you the binary pattern for each letter in the word? Sure there are better ways of doing it. I'd be interested in seeing what others from the forum come up with. I've always been interested in playing around with these glcds, but have never got one to mess around with.