# How do I declare a textfile gloabaly

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 21, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-declare-a-textfile-gloabaly/255369 "2008-03-21T18:30:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![shaunv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shaunv](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shaunv)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-declare-a-textfile-gloabaly/255369/1 "2008-03-21T18:30:13Z")

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I need to declare a text file gloabaly so I can call it within a symbol for a scroll box… How would I go about declareing that… file name is myText.txt