>Joe,
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>I am trying to OPEN THE FILE when I click the command button or VIEWING what's in the text file. You are just storing the path of the text file.
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>Any other suggestions?
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>Thank you again
>
That's what the common dialog control do, return the name of the selected file. It does not open it.
You must use the OPEN/CLOSE statements to be able to read it.