O haha I see now wow can't belive I didn't get it untill now basically instead of all the LED subroutines why not just change the bits so that I can light up 3 LED's in one colum with 2 lines of code instead of like 10-15 makes much more sense now and too loop the whole display I would only need to loop 8 lines of code 2 for each colum 1000 times a second makes complete sense now here is what I have so far is this right or am I still doing something wrong hahaha this is the code I have so far for the Name Sam I only have S and A done but im seeing some problems as I will try to tell you don't know how to get around them yet like this for instance lighting up Q4 fully will cause Q3 to light up as well am I correct on this using the following code and you did say you could light up too 3 LED's in each row so here it goes now I only want 10 and 12 lit in Q4 under this is the Code I have so far for Sam once again S and A are done still working on M I also tried to loop it 1000 times don't know if this is the correct way to do so each loop, loops 256 times so I needed 4 loops to get 1000 so its after this little bit of code also when I clarify the Variables at the start of the code for the sc variables can I just put comas between them like so sc,sc1,sc2,sc3 so that I don't have to waste like 10-15 lines just to clarify them

 

Srry for the double post but does this look correct? it loops 1000 times in 1 second using the setup you have also with the same numbers