# Loading Text from External Sources
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-external-sources/23564
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 19, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-external-sources/23564 "2003-06-19T16:42:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@reckless](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/reckless)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-external-sources/23564/1 "2003-06-19T16:42:01Z")
Hi there.
I just did the Loading Text from External Sources tutorial. I followed it word for word but i have a problem.
In the finished .fla I noticed the text was small and some differant font to Verdana. On the one I created the sentance I put into the text1/2/3.txt files comes up in huge Verdana font.
Where have I gone wrong?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-external-sources/23564/2 "2003-06-19T16:51:41Z")
Help me!!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-external-sources/23564/3 "2003-06-19T16:59:39Z")
Hold the phone, all seems well when I’ve restarted. The problem was the text box. It was refusing to use small text, even when set to small.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-external-sources/23564/4 "2003-06-19T20:29:15Z")
L0l
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-external-sources/23564/5 "2003-06-19T20:32:12Z")
Occasionally Flash gets weird and whatever you are doing won’t work until you scrap and restart from scratch (no not the whole movie, just whatever part you were working on).
This doesn’t happen often, but it’s been known to happen.