I need some help on why the following VB stmns do not work in FormLoad event
when MORE THAN ONE setting for color is made on different portion of a text
string being displayed on the Form.

Enivronment: VB5, WindowsNT4, using Microsoft VB5's RichTextBox Control (named
RichTxtBox1)

Below is the VB text fragment:

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Private Sub Form_Load()
    Set rtfText = RichTextBox1
    rtfText.TextRTF = "12345678901" & chr(10) 'chr10 is line feed
    rtfText.TextRTF = rtfText.Text & "Line2"

'A =   Following will work, text shows as Red in runtime mode
   rtfText.SelStart = 0
   rtfText.SelLength =4
   rtfText.SelColor = vbRed

'B = Following will work, PROVIDED I remove "A" stmn block
   rtfText.SelStart = 5
   rtfText.SelLength = 10
   rtfText.SelColor = vbBlue

'C = Following will work whether it is A or B being active
   rtfText.Font.Bold = True

End Sub

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"A" and "B" both work whenI put its stmns inside its respective button on the
Form and click each buttons in turn (after I manually selected the text).  

But I want to open up a form in runtime and have the text displaying text of
different colors automatically, without user selecting text and clicking
buttons to set color.  HOW DO I DO THIS ???  Why the FormLoad event cannot
handles more than one setting for font colors in the RichTextBox Control?

Can you help???  Thank you in advance !

Mary Walker