Thanks, I have decided to have a think about it as i dont believe this is the best way to make the program.

Many thanks for your help, sorry I'm very much a newbie so would really appreciate it if you could tell me if i have done something wrong.

Sorry but doesnt this coding mean that it will run the same task 10 to 100 times?

'Do Work
    Const Max As Integer = 100

   For i = 1 To Max
      '  Task 1
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(10 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 2
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(20 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 3
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(30 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 4
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(40 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 5
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(50 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 6
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(60 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 7
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(70 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 8
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(80 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 9
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(90 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
      '  Task 10
 Backgroundworker1.ReportProgress(CInt(100 * i / Max), "" & i.ToString)
            Next

'Progress changed

Me.progressBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage

Thanks Michael, top man

m_wylie85, on 25 May 2012 - 02:33 PM, said:

Michael,

Same as yesterday I tried my best trying to code this but for the life of me I can't get it to work. What have I done wrong here?

It just keeps showing an empty text file.

     Dim Convertcolumn = From line In System.IO.File.ReadLines("Textfile1")
          Select line.Split(" "c)(1) & line.Split(" "c)(1).ToLower()

        Dim writer As IO.StreamWriter = New IO.StreamWriter("Textfile2")

        For Each line In Convertcolumn
            writer.Write((line) & Environment.NewLine)
        Next

I'm trying to convert the second column

From

Textfile1

D00001 BLACK user
D00002 BLACK user

To Textfile2

D00001 black user
D00002 black user

m_wylie85, on 25 May 2012 - 01:53 PM, said:

Thanks Michael, i will check it out.

One last thing one of the columns is showing as uppercase how would I make it lowercase? I tried googling it but cant see anything?