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Chapter 15: Simple Dialog Boxes
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The GetOpenFilename method takes the optional arguments shown in
Table 15-5.
Table 15-5
Argument
FileFilter
FilterIndex
Title
ButtonText
MultiSelect
GetOpenFilename Method Arguments
What It Does
Determines the types of files that appear in the dialog box (for
example, *.TXT). You can specify several different filters from
which the user can choose.
Determines which of the file filters the dialog box displays by
default.
Specifies the caption for the dialog box’s title bar.
Ignored (used only for the Macintosh version of Excel).
If True, the user can select multiple files.
A GetOpenFilename example
The fileFilter argument determines what appears in the dialog box’s Files of
Type drop-down list. This argument consists of pairs of file filter strings followed
by the wild card file filter specification, with commas separating each
part and pair. If omitted, this argument defaults to the following:
All Files (*.*), *.*
Notice that this string consists of two parts:
All Files (*.*)
and
*.*
The first part of this string is the text displayed in the Files of Type dropdown
list. The second part determines which files the dialog box displays.
For example, *.* means all files.
The code in the following example brings up a dialog box that asks the user
for a filename. The procedure defines five file filters. Notice that I use the
VBA line continuation sequence to set up the Filter variable; doing so helps
simplify this rather complicated argument.