# External text file
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text-file/10815
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 7, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text-file/10815 "2003-01-07T21:23:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@m\_scerbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/m_scerbo)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text-file/10815/1 "2003-01-07T21:23:37Z")
I will be creating a site where I need to make one portion bring in data from an external text file. One that people can edit that are not technical. I wanted to know if there is a way to do this and if I can make some sort of template where they can make certain things bold or different colors. Any ideas??? THANK YOU :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text-file/10815/2 "2003-01-07T21:55:20Z")
here is a start for u, hope its what ur looking for…
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic\_scroller.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.asp)
if you ignore the parts about the scrollbars and just follow the rest you should get it, also if you want text to appear as bold or in different colours, click the render text as html button in the properties box while your textfield is selected. This will however mean the person creating the text file will need to insert a few html tags where needed within the text file if they want bold text for example in the web page, but after a few tries at it I’m sure they’ll find it easy enough.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text-file/10815/3 "2003-01-07T21:58:49Z")
this tutorial will show how to load text files
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic\_scroller.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.asp)
some of these might help
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=25109&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending](http://www.kirupaforum.com/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=25109&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending)
I’ll make an example for you … just give me a moment
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text-file/10815/4 "2003-01-07T22:11:37Z")
here you go 😏
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-text-file/10815/5 "2003-01-07T22:15:59Z")
THANK YOU VERY MUCH I will try the zip file 🙂 and read the tutorials. This is what I thought I could do but I dont think this will solve the non techical user part of it ☹ Is there any componets out there that may help. I saw a data grid but haven’t tried it. THANKS(-: