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The most intuitive way to append a string to the current contents of a TextBox is through the & string operator, as in: Click here to copy the following block Text1.Text = Text1.Text & "more text" However, you can reach the same result about 4 times faster with the following method: Click here to copy the following block Text1.SelStart = Len(Text1.Text) Text1.SelText = "more text"

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