I have a little application that I would like to have available for
use for various organizational locations via a intranet link. If I run
the application (inside Excel) from a web directory it works fine but
I want to simplify the install by keeping the original on a web server
to be opened via Internet Explorer using Excel. I've developed a web
page that links to the file but the script freezes when I try any of
the following statements. I want the user to be able to choose which
directory they pull a file from to import it to my application and I
believe the problem may be due to some confusion between using Excel
while in the IE link. Any thoughts?

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogOpen).Show '"*.xls"

Workbooks.Open Filename:=Application.GetOpenFilename

Thanks in advance.

Jim

I'm betting that application refers to MSIE.

Maybe you could do something like:

ThisWorkbook.Parent.dialogs(....).show

The parent of the workbook would be excel.

Untested in MSIE, but both give the same results within excel:

Dim xlApp As Application
Set xlApp = ThisWorkbook.Application
MsgBox xlApp.Name

or

Dim xlApp As Application
Set xlApp = ThisWorkbook.Parent
MsgBox xlApp.Name

then you could do:

xlapp.dialogs(...).show

instead of using that long style.

Jim W wrote:

I have a little application that I would like to have available for
use for various organizational locations via a intranet link. If I run
the application (inside Excel) from a web directory it works fine but
I want to simplify the install by keeping the original on a web server
to be opened via Internet Explorer using Excel. I've developed a web
page that links to the file but the script freezes when I try any of
the following statements. I want the user to be able to choose which
directory they pull a file from to import it to my application and I
believe the problem may be due to some confusion between using Excel
while in the IE link. Any thoughts?

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogOpen).Show '"*.xls"

Workbooks.Open Filename:=Application.GetOpenFilename

Thanks in advance.

Jim

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Dave Peterson