If you want to use notepad in VB, you have to use a form which is fired by a button. The form is used for the container of the notepad.
You have to add reference to your project when you want to read data from or save data to Excel, and have to creat an object that points to the Excel. When you read data from Excel, you have to assign the cell's number. Vb5 has a simple method that I used several years before, but I forgot it.
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