I had the problem to split an RGB color to its red, green and blue values. So, I used my Assembler knowledge to do it.! Here's the sample-code (for a command button): Private Sub Command1_Click() x& = RGB(212, 15, 21) 'lowbyte = red value 'second byte = green value 'third byte = blue value 'highbyte = always zero Print "RGB color:"; x& 'first = low byte Print "red:"; vbTab; x& And &HFF& 'seconde byte, to make it an eight bit value, 'we have to divide it by 256 = &H100& Print "green:"; vbTab; (x& And &HFF00&) \ &H100& 'third byte, division by 65536 = &H10000 makes 'it eight bit Print "blue:"; vbTab; (x& And &HFF0000) \ &H10000 'the highbyte is always 0, so we don't have to 'read it! ' 'What does the AND-OPERATOR do? ' 'To get only the lowbyte, for example, you have 'to do an AND-OPERATION with &HFF& = 255. '&HFF& = 0000000011111111 in bits (here I only 'show it as 16 bit value). ' '0 and 0 = 0 '0 and 1 = 0 '1 and 0 = 0 '1 and 1 = 1 ' 'So, making an AND-OPERATION with &HFF& doesn't 'change the lowbyte, but sets all other bytes '(bits) to zero!!! 'Using &HFF00& sets all bytes (bits) to zero 'except the second byte! To convert it to an 'eight bit value, simply divide it by 256 = &H100&. ' '32-bit value: highbyte, third byte, second byte, 'lowbyte 'Other progtammers are using following names: 'H.O. Byte = high order byte 'Byte #2 = third byte 'Byte #1 = second byte 'L.O. Byte = low order byte ' 'e.g.:00010203, 00 = highbyte, 03 = lowbyte End Sub