Fileopen.doc
This month’s Word macro allows you to display the Open dialog with files of a particular type shown. We’ve set it up to display text (TXT) and DOC files at the same time, but you can set it to display any combination of file types that you want. The key to using it is to set the Name property of the Word File Open dialog (wddialogFileOpen), using a string that contains the file extensions of the files to look for. You simply enclose the types in a string in the form "*.doc;*.txt", where each file type is separated from the next by a semicolon. If you configure this macro to suit your preferences and then save it to your Normal.dot file, it will be available to all your documents. Attach it to a toolbar button, so you can click the button when you need to open or see files that have these extensions. In addition, if you rename the file FileOpen, it will replace the current FileOpen dialog so that it always appears when you click File —> Open. The macro and instructions are in fileopen.doc.

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