List Boxes in Powerpoint

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I've tried to use FileDialog to allow a user to open a text file in
Powerpoint. What happens is that when the FileDialog property is used and
the user selects a text file the supporting program (in this case Powerpoint)
also opens. Powerpoint is already open so I don't need another one opening.
If any can help with FileDialog I would certainly appreciate it.

Failing that I was going to use a listbox. Whenever a text file (these are
test questions) are created, the filename for the test questions would be
saved in a listbox when the user saved the test questions. When the user
wanted to load the questions they would then select the file name from the
listbox. Sounds easy .... but

Any help woulf be great.

Many thanks Tony
 
I've tried to use FileDialog to allow a user to open a text file in
Powerpoint. What happens is that when the FileDialog property is used and
the user selects a text file the supporting program (in this case Powerpoint)
also opens. Powerpoint is already open so I don't need another one opening.
If any can help with FileDialog I would certainly appreciate it.
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I'm a big vague on what you're trying to do here.

If you need to let the user CHOOSE a file that you later do something with,
consider using the Windows Common Dialog instead. It's a bit tricky until you
get used to using it but there are lots of good examples at places like
http://vbnet.mvps.org/

Search on "common dialog"

The first result should be the one you're after.
 
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