What DrAzzy said will fix it. If you do want to stick with Arduino IDE 1.6.10/Arduino AVR Boards 1.6.12 let me know and I can tell you how to solve that issue.
Thank you for the help. 16.9 did the trick. I think for now I will stick with the 16.9 version. I lost a little work but will be easy to recover as I had only started the sketch and was into it about 12 lines. Again...thank you for the help.
Kurt