>Hi Naomi
>Edit box would be good from what i can see - yes. I've not used this and the code examples i have that are similar have more features than i need - do you know where i can pick up a simple example code. (Sergey's site did not turn up anything on the subject.)
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>thanks
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>k

What is the problem here - you put an EditBox on the form and then assign its value to filetostr('myFile.txt') && convert file to string.

You may want to check http://berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/view-pdf-vfp-form and use a text file instead of the PDF here.