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The fastest way to append contents to a TextBox control

The most intuitive way to append a string to the current contents of a TextBox is through the & string operator, as in:

Text1.Text = Text1.Text & "more text"

However, you can reach the same result about 4 times faster with the following method:

Text1.SelStart = Len(Text1.Text)Text1.SelText = "more text"

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