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

ID: Q146922

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

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

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

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.

Keywords          : kbdta word97 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbnofix

Last Reviewed: March 3, 1999