I would like to use VBA from within an Excel workbook to run the Search
function of the My Computer dialog, and return the found files to a
worksheet. I am aware of the existence of the FileSearch object, but it
doesn't seem to give me the option to display a dialog box like that in My
Computer/Search to define the directories to be searched and the filters to
be used. The FileDialog object allows the selection of directories, but
seemingly only for one drive at a time (I would like to be able to search all
of My Computer).

Thanks for your help.

If you want to search all drives then you don't have to select them from a dialog.
Just loop thru all of them and get the files from each one...
'--
Sub InterogateAllDrives()
'Jim Cone - Portland Oregon - June 2008
Dim oFSO As Object
Dim oAllDrives As Object
Dim oDrive As Object

Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oAllDrives = oFSO.drives
For Each oDrive In oAllDrives
If oDrive.IsReady Then

'do something with the files on the drive.

End If
Next 'oDrive

Set oDrive = Nothing
Set oAllDrives = Nothing
Set oFSO = Nothing
End Sub
--
Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins - free trial of "List Files" - no registration)




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I would like to use VBA from within an Excel workbook to run the Search
function of the My Computer dialog, and return the found files to a
worksheet. I am aware of the existence of the FileSearch object, but it
doesn't seem to give me the option to display a dialog box like that in My
Computer/Search to define the directories to be searched and the filters to
be used. The FileDialog object allows the selection of directories, but
seemingly only for one drive at a time (I would like to be able to search all
of My Computer).
Thanks for your help.