The RichTextBox is a additional VB component that comes with Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Edition. This control allows your program to create formatted text (i.e. bulleted, bold and coloured text) in RTF (Rich Text Format). This file format can then be read by other programs like WordPad and MS Word. It could be use in two main ways.

1) You could program your application like a Word Processor, which would give your user much more freedom than just plain text

2) Use the control in an application where it would be beneficial to the user if you colour certain portions of text. E.G in a HTML editor, where it makes tags one colour, and text another.

<p>THIS IS TEXT </P>

To add the Rich Text Box control to your project click Project|Components. Check the box next to Microsoft Rich TextBox Control. Click OK