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HOW TO CHOOSE FILES AND FOLDERS IN VBA

Part one of a three-part series of blogs

To make it easier for users of your VBA systems to choose files, you can show FileDialogs on screen. This blog explains what these are, and how to customise them.

  1. Overivew of File and Folder Dialog Boxes (this article)
  2. Using FileDialogs in VBA
  3. FileDialogs for Selecting Multiple Files

This blog is part of a complete Excel VBA tutorial.

Posted by Andy Brown on 13 January 2012 | no comments

Using File and Folder Dialog Boxes in VBA

Often in VBA you need to ask someone to choose a file or folder, using a dialog box like this one:

Dialog box for choosing file

Many parts of this dialog box have been customised

This blog explains how to display a dialog box like this, how to customise it and - most importantly - how to get at the file or files selected.

 

HOW TO CHOOSE FILES AND FOLDERS IN VBA

Part one of a three-part series of blogs

To make it easier for users of your VBA systems to choose files, you can show FileDialogs on screen. This blog explains what these are, and how to customise them.

  1. Overivew of File and Folder Dialog Boxes (this article)
  2. Using FileDialogs in VBA
  3. FileDialogs for Selecting Multiple Files

This blog is part of a complete Excel VBA tutorial.

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