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FileDialog.InitialView Property

Office Developer Reference

Gets or sets an MsoFileDialogView constant representing the initial presentation of files and folders in a file dialog box. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.InitialView

expression   A variable that represents a FileDialog object.

Example

The following example displays a File Picker dialog box in details view 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 <strong class="ui">File Picker</strong> 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
    
    'Set the initial view to the details view.
    .InitialView = msoFileDialogViewDetails

    'Use the Show method to display the <strong class="ui">File Picker</strong> dialog box and return the user's action.
    'If the user presses the button...
    If .Show = -1 Then

        'Step through each string 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: " &amp; vrtSelectedItem

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

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

End Sub

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