Dave, Thanks for your replys. I tried a TextBox and that did not work either. I think it's the Inet control that is reformatting the text. I did get it working with the API call URLDownloadToFile which apparently saves the raw text a file. I then reload to the RichTextBox for searching and all the text is there. Thanks again, Huling

Dave, I now see your confusion which is really the basis of my question. When I cut and pasted some of the text from Notepad into my post it was automatically changed and the text is missing from my post. This is the same thing that is happening in my program. So is there a way to turn off the formatting in the richtextbox and make the text appear as it does in Notepad. I have tried most of the property settings with no success. Thanks, Huling

Inet1 is an Internet Transfer Control. Basically, I am loading the webpage into a richtextbox with RichTextBox1.Text = Inet1.OpenURL("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/os?s=qqqq&m=2007-04") But a search for "yfs_l10_" will find nothing. However, if you use View Source in Internet Explorer, "yfs_l10_" will be found. I don't understand if the text is getting altered by the Internet Transfer Control or the RichTextBox. Thanks for you help, Huling

When I open the web page "http://finance.yahoo.com/q/os?s=qqqq&m=2007-04" and view the source in Internet Explorer with Notepad, the text I am looking for looks like class="yfnc_h" align="right">11.67< but when I use RichTextBox1.Text = Inet1.OpenURL("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/os?s=qqqq&m=2007-04") it looks like class="yfnc_h" align="right">11.67< in the RichTextBox. What happened to the