How to format a While... Wend correctly?

[SMcNeill]

So something else is going on that using count to control stop fixes.

BTW .39 +/-  secs to load dictionary well within acceptable range!

I think the issue you're seeing is from the last line being blank. I don't think it terminates with a chr$(10), so you're never actually advancing to the end of the file.

Add a check for If temp1$ = "" Then Exit Do in there, and you're golden.

Your endless loop is basically start point = 1234567890, end point = 0... then at the end of that loop, start point = end point + 1... so it just starts reading the whole file over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Exit it with a check for that blank line, and you skip that reset to 0.