Handling other files in VBA macros As a programmer, you’re likely to come across many situations where other files need to be opened for reading, writing, or appending data. A macro can help you easily handle these files, and the Open method is your ticket.
In this article we will show you how to display file name as a hyperlink to a file in Excel. We first introduced this concept in this article but will expand upon it here. For this we will use the Hyperlinks.Add Method. Let’s have a
Copying or moving an Excel-exported PDF file automatically to a specific folder location or local directory can be very easily achieved if you try to run a customized VBA macro program in Microsoft Excel, which essentially enables the user to freely select any desired file
There are some cases that we want to delete tables in multiple Microsoft Word files but doing this manually takes time and even troublesome especially if we have a large number of files. Good thing is that we can automatically remove all the tables in Microsoft
How often in your VBA code do you have ask for a file name along with its complete path as an input from the user? Most programmers end up using an input box in this situation. However, this is not very convenient for the user. Furthermore, there are
What is the Application.FileDialog VBA function and how do you use it? Basically, it returns a FileDialog object instance of the dialog. This is similar to the functionality of the standard Open and Save dialog boxes found in Microsoft Office applications. Using these dialog boxes, users
If you read the article about the FileDialog object in Excel here you will already know a bit about the msoFileDialogOpen constant available as a parameter for the FileDialog object. We are going to take a deeper dive into the msoFileDialogOpen constant in this article. WHY
Have you ever wished you could develop a simple way for users to select files to open from within Excel? Perhaps you want to impose a level of control over which file path users select the file(s) from. This can be done by using the
In this article I will explain how you can modify an existing text file. Jump To: Example 1, Overwrite Existing File With New Data Example 2, Modify Values in Text File Example 3, Adding Open and Save File Dialogs You can download the file and code related
The folder dialog is a dialog that prompts the user to select a directory path. Jump To: Example Button Name, ButtonName Change Title, Title Start Path, InitialFileName You can download the file and code for this file here. Please note that although the sample file is for