Article ID: 161669
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q161669
SUMMARY
The Open button does not open the selected file after you run a Visual Basic for Applications macro using the wdDialogFileFind constant with the Dialogs collection object.
CAUSE
All functionality using the wdDialogFileFind constant does not work as expected.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the beginning of this article.
WORKAROUND
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To work around this problem you can use the wdDialogFileOpen constant instead of the wdDialogFileFind constant. The following example will attempt to open a file using the path and filename you specify. The FileOpen dialog box will not display. To display the FileOpen dialog box replace dlg.Execute with dlg.Show:
Note: Functionality is extremely limited searching for a file using wdDialogFileOpen versus wdDialogFileFind.
Sub FindFileWorkAround()
Dim strFilePath As String
Dim strFileName As String
Dim dlg As Dialog
' Change the following values to
' match your criteria.
strFilePath = "D:\My Documents\"
strFileName = "MyDoc.Doc"
' Set the FileOpen dialog to display
' the criteria.
Set dlg = Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen)
dlg.Name = strFilePath & strFileName
' If the file is not found, trap the
' error that will occur.
On Error Resume Next
' Execute the dialog without displaying.
' If the file exists, the dlg.Execute
' command will open the file.
dlg.Execute
' If the file does not exist, display
' Word default error.
If Err = 5174 Then
MsgBox Err.Description
End If
End Sub
For more information about displaying built-in Word dialogs, while in the Visual Basic for Applications Editor, click the Office Assistant, type dialogs, click Search, and then click to view "Dialog Object."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If Microsoft Visual Basic Help is not installed on your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
120802 Office: How to Add/Remove a Single Office Program or Component
For information about how to do this in earlier versions of Word, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
135590 Can't Open Selected Document Using FileFind Macro
MORE INFORMATION
The following macro demonstrates this behavior:
Sub FileFindExample()
Dialogs(wdDialogFileFind).Show
End Sub
When executed, this macro displays the Open dialog box (File menu). When you select a file and then click Open, the Open dialog box closes and the selected file is not opened.
REFERENCES
For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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