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Word 2016 - Open To File Selection Dialog
Hi Experts,
 When I click on a shortcut to startup Word I want it to first display the File Selection Dialog at a particular location with the files at that location listed for selection.
Example
User generated image
How do I do this?

Thanks,
Bob C.

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You have to place an AutoExec Macro into your normal.dotm

Sub AutoExec()
ChangeFileOpenDirectory "S:\Daten\"
Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen).Show
End Sub

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YOu have to change the path of course...
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Hi Bembi,

Thanks for the quick response.

I understand what you are suggesting but I don't know how to actually do this.

Can you please elaborate with some details.

E.G. How do I Open the normal.dotm file, add the code and then save it?

Thanks,
Bob C.
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Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.