Save the contents of a textbox to a file

Here's another small bit of code that shows you how to save the contents of TextBox1 to test.txt

' Get a free file number
FileNum = FreeFile

' Create Test.txt
Open App.Path & "Test.txt" For Output As FileNum

' Write the contents of TextBox1 to Test.txt
Print #FileNum, TextBox1.Text

' Close the file
Close FileNum

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