Microsoft KB Archive/139724

= Macro to Loop Through All Files in a Folder (Directory) =

Article ID: 139724

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q139724





SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that loops through specified files in a folder (directory) and displays each file name in a dialog box.



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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub DirLoop

Dim MyFile As String, Sep As String

' Sets up the variable "MyFile" to be each file in the directory ' This example looks for all the files that have an .xls extension. ' This can be changed to whatever extension is needed. Also, this ' macro searches the current directory. This can be changed to any ' directory.

' Test for Windows or Macintosh platform. Make the directory request. Sep = Application.PathSeparator

If Sep = "\" Then ' Windows platform search syntax. MyFile = Dir(CurDir & Sep & "*.xls")

Else

' Macintosh platform search syntax. MyFile = Dir("", MacID("XLS5")) End If

' Starts the loop, which will continue until there are no more files ' found.

Do While MyFile <> ""

' Displays a message box with the name of the file. This can be        ' changed to any procedure that would be needed to run on every ' file in the directory such as opening each file.

MsgBox CurDir & Sep & MyFile MyFile = Dir Loop

End Sub

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