FileDialogSelectedItems.Count property (Office)
Gets a Long indicating the number of items in the FileDialogSelectedItems collection. Read-only.
Syntax
expression.Count
expression A variable that represents a FileDialogSelectedItems object.
Return value
Long
Example
The following example displays a File Picker dialog box and displays each selected file in a message box.
Sub Main()
'Declare a variable as a FileDialog object.
Dim fd As FileDialog
Dim cnt As Integer
'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
'Allow the selection of multiple file.
.AllowMultiSelect = True
'Use the Show method to display the File Picker dialog box and return the user's action.
'The user pressed the button.
If .Show = -1 Then
'Step through each string in the FileDialogSelectedItems collection
For cnt = 0 To .SelectedItems.Count - 1
'vrtSelectedItem is aString that contains the path of each selected item.
'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(cnt)
Next
'The user pressed Cancel.
Else
End If
End With
'Set the object variable to Nothing.
Set fd = Nothing
End Sub
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