>Here is a quick look at what I am doing. Is this the best way to accomplish what I am trying to do?

For the most part. I know alot of people have a constant CRLF defined as chr(13) + chr(10) globally for the app, plus, you may have just forgotten, but you need semicolons after each line:

#define CRLF chr(13) + chr(10)

textvar = "Line one" + CRLF + ;
              "Line two" + CRLF + ;
              "Line three" + CRLF