Instr return the position of the character from the beginning of the string,
not relative to where you start.

NickHK

"Norm Lundquist" ...
Here's an easy one that I can't see!

Why does

InStr(4,"XXpXXpXXPXXP","P",vbTextCompare)

return 6 and

Instr(5,"ABC-123-XYZ","-",vbTextCompare)

return 8??? I thought the second one would return 4 because the second
dash
is the fourth character when you start search at position 5.

THANKS!