>I am an amature in access programming (but work deeply in VFP), but do lots of data design. I need to let the user select a file from a directory, and then import the file data into the access database. I don't really have a lot to go on here so I am hoping someone can help me out??
>
>TIA
>
>Ric


Here is an example how to use API to display File Open/Save dialog:

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm

HTH,