Skimask,
I will do some looking into the macro coding,
Looks like it does the job, can you show me where I would insert my string of characters?

I would really like to use lookup tables for this project as I have a grasp on them.
Right now I am just really stumped on how to use arrays with lookup tables to get a full 8x8 matrice of values to the screen one column at a time...???? then of coarse how to shift that entire matrice left or right while fetching the next array to feed into the screen.