Share via

FileDialog.ButtonName Property

  • Article
Office Developer Reference

Sets or gets a String representing the text that is displayed on the action button of a file dialog box. Read/write.

Aa432239.vs_note(en-us,office.12).gif  Note
The Microsoft Office Assistant has been deprecated in the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system.

Syntax

expression.ButtonName

expression   A variable that represents a FileDialog object.

Remarks

By default, this property is set to the standard text for the type of file dialog box. For example, in the case of the Open dialog box, the property is set to "Open" by default. This string is limited to fifty-one characters.

Example

The following example displays a File Picker dialog box using the FileDialog object and displays each selected file in a message box.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub Main()

'Declare a variable as a FileDialog object.
Dim fd As FileDialog

'Create a FileDialog object as a File Picker dialog box.
Set fd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)

'Declare a variable to contain the path
'of each selected item. Even though the path is aString,
'the variable must be a Variant because For Each...Next
'routines only work with Variants and Objects.
Dim vrtSelectedItem As Variant

'Use a With...End With block to reference the FileDialog object.
With fd

    'Change the text on the button.
    .ButtonName = "Archive"

    'Use the Show method to display the File Picker dialog box and return the user's action.
    'If the user presses the button...
    If .Show = -1 Then

        'Step through eachString in the FileDialogSelectedItems collection.
        For Each vrtSelectedItem In .SelectedItems

            'vrtSelectedItem is aString that contains the path of each selected item.
            'You can use any file I/O functions that you want to work with this path.
            'This example displays the path in a message box.
            MsgBox "Selected item's path: " & vrtSelectedItem

        Next vrtSelectedItem
    'If the user presses Cancel...
    Else
    End If
End With

'Set the object variable to Nothing.
Set fd = Nothing



End Sub

See Also