Does File Exist

Im after a small piece of code that will check a directory for a certain file and advise whether it exiss or not.

Thank you in advance for anyhelp you can provide.

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Dir returns an empty string if no file is found matching the 'search' pattern.

Good afternoon ceemo

The example below will check whether your C:\ drive contains a file called filename.xls. In the unlikely event that it does, "TRUE" will be returned in a msgbox, otherwise (and probably) "FALSE" will be returned.

Sub DoesFileExist()
Set MyFile = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
MsgBox MyFile.FileExists("c:\filename.xls")
End Sub

HTH

DominicB