Myrna and Dick helped me get started on trying to open a .txt file. If I
hard-code the file path and name, I can use Shell to open it. But then I
can't read the contents into a string. So I was trying to use Open And Read
or ReadLine through the FSO. I guess the FSO is opening the file - it never
becomes visible (which is okay), but the code drops to the Read line. But
with either ReadLine or ReadAll, it errors out - "Input past end of file".
Can someone shed some light, please?

Ed

Dim FSO As Object, File As Object, Contents As String
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim strFName As String
Dim strFPath As String
strFPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\"
strFName = strFPath & "About.txt"

Set File = FSO.OpenTextFile(strFName)
Contents = File.ReadLine
MsgBox Contents