>>>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.
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>>Terry,
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>>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.
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>Thanks - how do you remember all this stuff:)

You're welcome. I must admit that I did have to look it up in the MSDN library to make sure I had the right function call, but I did know the DLL so it wasn't that had to find.

Of course, I have trouble remembering what I had for lunch to-day because my head's all stuffed with this API stuff.:-)