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Q146922: WD97: Selecting Multiple File Names Gives Run-time Error 5174

Article: Q146922
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbdta word97
Last Modified: 08-JUL-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you select multiple file names from the Open dialog box and then click the
Open button, the following error message appears:

  Run-time error '5174'

  This file could not be found.

CAUSE
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The Open dialog box from which you selected the file names is being displayed by
a macro using the wdDialogFileOpen built-in Word dialog box.

  Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen).Show

You can select a single file and open it, but selecting multiple files at one
time causes the error message.

MORE INFORMATION
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You cannot select multiple files form the built-in Open dialog box in Word when
displayed programmatically. This lack of functionality is by design in the
previous and present versions of Word.

When you record a macro in Microsoft Word of opening multiple files form the Open
dialog box the result is a series of statments:

  Documents.Open FileName:=<filename1>
  Documents.Open FileName:=<filename2>
  Documents.Open FileName:=<filename3>

This is the functionality of the Word Visual Basic for Applications constant
wdDialogFileOpen which is different from Microsoft Excel Open dialog box
functionality.


Additional query words: runtime

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Keywords          : kbdta word97 
Technology        : kbWordSearch kbWord97 kbWord97Search kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : :
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbnofix

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