How to get/select one or more filenames

[Ebbe]

Hey!

I have a Word-macro, that reads some data from one ore more .txt files.
The name of the files is given at each run.
I am looking for a dialog box, in the style of Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen),
that returns me name and path of one or more selected files.
If it is possible to give a initial directory to search in and one or more
searchpatterns like "Textfiles (*.txt), *.txt" I would be delighted!

Running MS-Office 2000 and 2003

Ebbe

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Ebbe,

I have a Word-macro, that reads some data from one ore more .txt files.
The name of the files is given at each run.
I am looking for a dialog box, in the style of Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen),
that returns me name and path of one or more selected files.
If it is possible to give a initial directory to search in and one or more
searchpatterns like "Textfiles (*.txt), *.txt" I would be delighted!

Running MS-Office 2000 and 2003

2002 and 2003, yes, there's a handy-dandy FileDialog object. Prior to those
versions, however, there's no really good solution for selecting multiple
files that doesn't involve messing with the Windows API, or creating your
own lists in a UserForm. Or, perhaps using a TreeControl (something I've
never tried).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Ebbe]

Exactly what I looked for

Do You (or other in this group) have the API code for earlier versions of
MS-Office?

Ebbe