Chris,
What do you actually want to do? Reading from or writing to a text file is
something Excel can do, for eaxmple the code below reads in 1 line at a time
from a text file and copies it to a worksheet.
Sub importtext()
x = 1
Open "c:\trial.txt" For Input As #1
Do While Not EOF(1)
Input #1, Line
Worksheets("sheet1").Cells(x, 1).Value = Line
x = x + 1
Loop
Close #1
End Sub
Mike