# TX Text Control ActiveX > A word processor in one ActiveX control for Visual Basic 6 and ASP: formatting, tables, images, fields, XML, mail merge, PDF export and the full API reference. - **Product:** TX Text Control ActiveX - **Kind:** Topic - **Path:** TX Text Control ActiveX - **941 words** - **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/ - **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/llms-full.txt --- TX Text Control ActiveX is a text processor in a single ActiveX control. You create all kinds of text-based applications with the programming style of Visual Basic, and your users get formatting and display features that are otherwise found only in large word processing packages: page view, tables, images, text frames, headers and footers, marked text fields, hypertext links and XML documents. The control loads and saves RTF, HTML, XML, DOC and DOCX documents and exports PDF. It runs on a form of a Visual Basic 6.0 application and, as an automation server, in Active Server Pages on Microsoft Internet Information Server. ### What It Gives Your Application | Task | Controls and objects | |---|---| | A word processor on a form, with formatting, tables, images and page layout | [TXTextControl](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/txtextcontrol/llms-full.txt) | | A button bar, ruler bars and a status bar that drive the editor | [TXButtonBar](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/txbuttonbar/llms-full.txt), [TXRulerBar](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/txrulerbar/llms-full.txt), [TXStatusBar](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/txstatusbar/llms-full.txt) | | Formatting styles that your code reads and changes | [Style](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/style/llms-full.txt), [Styles](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/styles/llms-full.txt) | | XML documents that your code reads and changes element by element | [XMLElement](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/xmlelement/llms-full.txt), [XMLElements](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/xmlelements/llms-full.txt) | | Documents generated on a web server, sent to the browser as PDF | `TXTextControl` as an [automation server](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/integration/automation-server/llms-full.txt) in [ASP](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/integration/asp/llms-full.txt) | ### Who This Documentation Is for It is written for developers who build applications with ActiveX controls, most of all in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and in ASP with VBScript. It assumes you know your development environment, and nothing about TX Text Control. ### How This Documentation Is Organized - **[Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/overview/llms-full.txt)** introduces the controls and objects, and tells you how to obtain technical support. - **[Installation Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/installation/llms-full.txt)** lists the system requirements, and shows how to install TX Text Control on a server and pass the serial number in C++. - **[Getting Started](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/getting-started/llms-full.txt)** builds a simple word processor in Visual Basic, step by step. - **[Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/document-editor/llms-full.txt)** describes how to use TX Text Control with Microsoft Visual Basic: views, files, formatting, styles, lists, sections, tables, images, text frames, headers and footers, footnotes, fields, form fields, track changes, comments, protection, XML, printing, the bars and the built-in dialog boxes. - **[Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/mail-merge/llms-full.txt)** merges database data into templates and stores documents in a database. - **[PDF Export](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/pdf/llms-full.txt)** saves documents as PDF files. - **[Integration Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/integration/llms-full.txt)** demonstrates the TX Text Control features in Microsoft Internet Information Server with ASP, and covers the automation server and DPI awareness. - **[Deployment Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/deployment/llms-full.txt)** shows how to distribute your applications and their language resources. - **[What's New](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/whats-new/llms-full.txt)** discusses the new features of each release from version 11.0 to 34.0. - **[API Reference](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/llms-full.txt)** documents every property, method and event of the controls and objects in alphabetical order. It also sorts them by programming category, lists the data types, and describes the mouse and keyboard interface and the supported formula functions. ### Where to Start 1. [Introduction](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/overview/introduction/llms-full.txt): the controls and objects, and a map of the tutorials and articles. 2. [System Requirements](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/installation/requirements/llms-full.txt): the Windows versions and development environments. 3. [Creating a Simple Word Processor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/getting-started/first-application/llms-full.txt): a working editor on a form. 4. [TXTextControl](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/txtextcontrol/llms-full.txt): the control you will spend the most time in. To move an application to .NET, [Migrating from ActiveX](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-winforms/installation/upgrading/activex/llms-full.txt) in the TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms documentation names the .NET counterpart of every ActiveX property, method and event. --- ## In This Section - [Deployment Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/deployment/llms-full.txt): Deploy applications built with TX Text Control ActiveX: the files your setup installs and registers, and resource libraries for languages that aren't built in. - [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/document-editor/llms-full.txt): Build a VB6 word processor with TXTextControl: files, formatting, styles, sections, tables, images, fields, track changes, protection, XML and printing. - [Getting Started](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/getting-started/llms-full.txt): Start with TXTextControl in Visual Basic 6: a first word processor tutorial, the TXWords, mail merge and database samples, and ASP samples for VBScript. - [Installation Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/installation/llms-full.txt): Set up TX Text Control ActiveX: Windows and Visual Basic 6 requirements, IIS and txregsvr.exe on a server, and the serial number in Visual C++ applications. - [Integration Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/integration/llms-full.txt): Use TXTextControl as an automation server in ASP and VBScript, check which members need a visible surface and make applications DPI aware with a manifest. - [Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/mail-merge/llms-full.txt): Merge database records into Marked Text Fields of a template with TXTextControl in Visual Basic 6, print queued records and let users build templates. - [Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/overview/llms-full.txt): Start with TX Text Control ActiveX: the introduction to its controls and objects, the legal notice, technical support and links to requirements and deployment. - [PDF Export](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/pdf/llms-full.txt): Save documents as PDF 1.3 or PDF/A-1b with the Save method, set ViewMode to Page View and FontSettings to embeddable fonts for long-term archiving. - [API Reference](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/reference/llms-full.txt): Reference of the ActiveX controls TXTextControl, TXButtonBar, TXRulerBar and TXStatusBar and the Style and XMLElement objects, with categories and data types. - [What's New](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/whats-new/llms-full.txt): TX Text Control ActiveX 30.0 to 34.0 at a glance, from comments to accessible PDF, older versions back to 11.0 and the update notes to read when you upgrade. --- ## Nearby - **Next:** [Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-activex/overview/llms-full.txt)