How to download a file with the OpenURL method of the Internet Transfer control ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This snippet allows you to retrieve a file from the internet and make a copy of it in your HD. If you want to access a text file (or HTML file) and use it later in your program,you might want to consider retrieving it in a string rather than a byte array. Dim bFile() as Byte ' Retrieving a binary file. ' Retrieve the file. bFile() = Inet1.OpenURL ("ftp://ftp.geocities.com/home.htm", icByteArray) ' Write file to disk. Open App.path & "\home.htm" For Binary Access Write As #1 Put #1, , bFile() Close #1