I have a multiline textbox to  which i would line to assign 2 lines of text
to appear on 2 lines. I have tried the following but without joy.

address = "house number" + chr$(10) + chr$(13) + "street name"
text1.text = address

but i get

house number||street name

appear in the textbox

I also tried assigning the lines individually text1.text(1) = "house number"
etc but got a write protect error

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:18:36 +0100, "A Bit Scruffy"

You need to set text1.multiline = True. Hope this helps

Ole
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Ole I. Hougaard

You're right Chr$(10) & Chr$(13) does not do what you want, but there is a
easy fix.

Swap them (13 before 10)

or simply use the predefined vbCrLf, which is, of course, Carriage Return
Line Feed

You've got the line feed and the carriage return in the wrong order.
Chr$(13) should come before Chr$(10). Better still, use the constant vbCrLf
instead.

Mike

1) Get in the habit of using "&" instead of "+" for string concatenation,
to avoid accidentally adding a string of digits to an integer in other
statements.

2) Since VB4, there are built-in constants that are much more self-documenting
than Chr$(number) calls:

  vbCr
  vbLf
  vbCrLf

You want the last one for this use.  For MsgBox text, use vbLf.

-- Rick
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(Rick Rutt is a system architect living and working in metropolitan Detroit.)