Selecting .dox and .docx using Dir$

[Neil Humphries]

How can the line:
myFile = Dir$(PathToUse & "*.doc")
be modified to look for both *.doc and *.docx files?
"*.doc?" won't work for me as I don't want to include "*.docm" files.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You may need to run the routine twice by repeating the block of code, once
with doc and the other time with docx

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[Neil Humphries]

I was afraid of that. Thanks.

You may need to run the routine twice by repeating the block of code, once
with doc and the other time with docx

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[Jay Freedman]

You could still use "*.doc?" and then examine the extension of each returned
file before doing anything with it.

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[Neil Humphries]

I'll have to check the initial call and all the subsequent calls. I was
hoping the MS might have added a constant or something to enable you to
select only standard word docs the same way it handles files with/without
attributes. Thanks for your suggestion.