Reference the notepad

I need to add a reference to the notepad to use it as an object. I can't find anything that points to the right place to reference it. Any ideas anyone?

I've searched the forum and there are some wonderful things you can do with the notepad but I cannot find anything that tells me how to reference it.

Notepad is not an ActiveX control, nor is there any reason to need it to be. Notepad does'nt do anything special. Certainly nothing that can be done in minimal coding.

I've created a report and exported it as text. In this instance it creates a blank line every 5 lines.. (I've no idea why and I've looked at it pretty intensely for a while..) I need to reference a notepad object.. or I could just shell it... and take out those blank lines. I can't import it into word or the byte spacing gets all messed up. I guess if there is no reference to it I'll just shell it and run a brute force code run on it.

Thanks

Use the 'Open' file and parse the blank lines and then save it as another filename.

VB Code:

Dim myData As String
 
Open "myfile.txt" For Input As #1
    Open "parsedfile.txt" For Output As #2
        Do Until EOF(1)
           Line Input #1, myData
           If Trim(myData) = "" Then
               Write #2, myData
           End If
        Loop
    Close #2
Close #1

Something like that.