>But if a select attempts to open a file thats not vailable - then it is an error. If ON ERROR don't catch it - then the next best thing is OPEN DIALOG. When we test our apps and the OPEN DIALOG pops up - we should fix the error or simplify the paradigm.

Terry,

It is the same dialog that GETFILE() utilizes. It's simply a wrapper to the Windows API call GetOpenFileName in Cmndlg32.dll. It just supplies only the file extension.