Microsoft KB Archive/213371

= XL2000: How to Display the Open and Save As Dialog Boxes =

Article ID: 213371

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q213371





SUMMARY
This article describes how to programmatically display the Open or the Save As dialog boxes in Microsoft Excel.

Note that the Open and Close methods do not display these dialog boxes.



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To create a Visual Basic Sub procedure, follow these steps:
 * 1) Start Excel.
 * 2) Press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic editor.
 * 3) On the Insert menu, click Module.
 * 4) Enter the Sub procedure code in the module sheet.
 * 5) Press ALT+F11 to return to Excel.

To run a Visual Basic Sub procedure, follow these steps:
 * 1) On the Tools menu, point to Macro and then click Macros.
 * 2) Select the macro (Sub procedure) that you want and then click Run.

To display the Open or Save As dialog box using a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications routine, use one of the following methods:

Method 1
This Visual Basic code uses the xlDialogOpen and xlDialogSaveAs constants to display the dialog.

To create a macro (OpenDialog) that will start the Open dialog box, use the following Visual Basic sample code: Sub OpenDialog Application.Dialogs(xlDialogOpen).Show End Sub To create a macro (OpenDialogFile) that will start the Open dialog box and select a specific file, use the following Visual Basic sample code: Sub OpenDialogFile Application.Dialogs(xlDialogOpen).Show (" :\ \ ") End Sub To create a macro (SaveDialog) that will start the Save As dialog box, use the following Visual Basic sample code: Sub SaveDialog Application.Dialogs(xlDialogSaveAs).Show End Sub To create a macro (SaveDialogFile) that will start the Save As dialog box and select a specific file name and path, use the following Visual Basic sample code: Sub SaveDialogFile Application.Dialogs(xlDialogSaveAs).Show (" :\ \ ") End Sub

Method 2
This Visual Basic code uses the GetOpenFilename and GetSaveAsFilename methods in conjunction with the Open or Close methods.

To create a macro (OpenFile) that will start the Open dialog box, use the following Visual Basic sample code: Sub OpenFile Workbooks.Open filename:=Application.GetOpenFilename End Sub To create a macro (SaveFile) that will start the Save As dialog box, use the following Visual Basic sample code: Sub SaveFile Activeworkbook.SaveAs filename:=Application.GetSaveAsFilename End Sub

