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    Get VBA to allow user to Browse for a file to open

    Hi,

    I am very, VERY new to VBA so apologies if this is general knowledge.

    I am writing a macro that takes a dump of data in a text file, converts it to columns in excel and copies it to an Access Database.

    My code for opening the text file is simply

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    However, what i would like is for the user to be able to browse to find the text file and if it isn't too much trouble, for a warning to be presented if they try to choose a file that isn't a txt file.

    Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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    Re: Get VBA to allow user to Browse for a file to open

    This thread is a duplicate.

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    Re: Get VBA to allow user to Browse for a file to open

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    Re: Get VBA to allow user to Browse for a file to open

    This code will only allow you to choose .txt files, but I put a bit of code there anyway to show you what you could do if you allow multiple file ext.

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    Re: Get VBA to allow user to Browse for a file to open

    Didn't see that, thanks Steven.

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