Ryan,
I assume you are talking VBA in Excel and that you want to add a Common
Dialog control to a user form.
For a control you do not add a reference but right click on the ToolBox,
select "Additional Controls" and find your desired control.

Nick

"Ryan" wrote in message
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Hi All,

Excel 2003 w/Visual Basic 6.3

there is no Common Dialog Box control in VB 6.3, when I try to browse it
under folder system32 the files comdlg32.dll and comdlg32.ocx are there,
but
I can not add it in the reference. The error messege is "can't add a
reference to the specified file". Can someone help me?