I don't know about the common control but generally the type of file display
is a user preference. It's best to let the user set his preference and just
go with it. If you use Excel's method for opening files:

Application.GetOpenFilename "Excel file (*.xls),*.xls"

then the user display preference will be used automatically and preserved
between Excel sessions.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"mark" wrote in message
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|I use the common dialog control to assist in selecting
| text files for import.
|
| Currently, it is listing the file appropriate file names
| based on the InitDir and Filter properties.
|
| Is there a a setting which would cause it to default to
| listing the file details such as filesize and date, too?
|
| Currently, if I want that, I have to use the little icon
| in the upper right that lets you change the file display
| from 'List' to 'Details'
|
| I looked in the VB6.0 help, but either I missed it, or the
| answer isn't there. Could be either.
|
| Thanks.