There are few VBA codes which are commonly used by every developer. One of them is giving an option to user to browse a file. Below is a sample code where I have given a browse button (shape) in an Excel sheet. User can click on this button/shape and select an Excel file. The browsed file path is then displayed in cell E2:
Sub open_file()
Workbooks.Open "C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\myFile.xlsx"
End Sub
Public Sub BrowseAFile()
Dim objFileDialog As Object
Dim objSelectedFile As Variant
'Browse the file
Set objFileDialog = Application.FileDialog(3)
With objFileDialog
.ButtonName = "Select"
.AllowMultiSelect = False
.Filters.Clear 'It is important to clear old filters before adding new one
.Filters.Add "Excel File", "*.xls;*.xlsx;*.xlsm", 1 'You may add more filters and give them a sequence
.Title = "Select Input file"
.Show
For Each objSelectedFile In .SelectedItems
Range("E2").Value = objSelectedFile 'You may change the destination as per your requirement
Next
End With
End Sub
It is worth to mention that if you want to allow user to select multiple files then you need to make few changes in the code else it will overwrite the path mentioned in cell E2 instead of creating a list
To use this code in your Excel file, follow below steps:
Thats how you can browse excel file using VBA Code.
To help you practice this code, we have made this code available through practice file. Click on the below link to download the practice file.
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