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I have done a search in the forum, and there are many results on browsing directory and opening files, but they are not what I have in mind.

What I have is different folders for different months (e.g. “January”, “February’, “March” and so on), and in each folder I have the same file names (e.g., in “January” folder, I have files called A, B, C. In “February”, I also have files A, B, C but these are different from the files in other folders)

Basically I need a macro which can open a specific list of files.

So first step, the user should be able to browse the directory, then select a folder (no need to open, not sure if it makes any difference though). I need the user to be able to select different folders because the macro should work for the different months in different years.

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Dim oShell As Object
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End If
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