O.K., there might end up being an installation, but I don't want extra files lying around - especially ones that could become accidentally modified or moved or something. Is it really that hard to just read the text file form the .res file? I opened the .res file in notepad and it was identical to the text file but had some extra junk at the beginning. How can I load the data form the .res file into a text box/string (as text)?