I can't shed any light on MS' intentions, but take a look at the
GetOpenFilename method in VBA help.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(remove nothere from email address if mailing direct)

"JK" wrote in message news:dkN3g.4841$yI1.4262@trnddc04...
I've heard that MS plans to do away with
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFindFile). Is this true? If so, how do we
write
a procedure that will do the same thing?

Thank you in advance.
Jim Kobzeff