InitialView Property

Microsoft Office Visual Basic

constant representing the initial presentation of files and folders in a file dialog box. Read/write.

MsoFileDialogView can be one of these MsoFileDialogView constants.
msoFileDialogViewDetails
msoFileDialogViewLargeIcons
msoFileDialogViewList
msoFileDialogViewPreview
msoFileDialogViewProperties
msoFileDialogViewSmallIcons
msoFileDialogViewThumbnail This constant is only available in conjunction with Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, or later.
msoFileDialogViewWebView Not available. If you select this constant, the default view will be used.

expression.InitialView

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Example

The following example displays a File Picker dialog box in details view using the FileDialog object and displays each selected file in a message box.

Sub Main()

    'Declare a variable as a FileDialog object.
    Dim fd As FileDialog

    'Create a FileDialog object as a File Picker dialog box.
    Set fd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)

    'Declare a variable to contain the path
    'of each selected item. Even though the path is a String,
    'the variable must be a Variant because For Each...Next
    'routines only work with Variants and Objects.
    Dim vrtSelectedItem As Variant

    'Use a With...End With block to reference the FileDialog object.
    With fd
        
        'Set the initial view to the details view.
        .InitialView = msoFileDialogViewDetails

        'Use the Show method to display the File Picker dialog box and return the user's action.
        'If the user presses the action button...
        If .Show = -1 Then

            'Step through each string in the FileDialogSelectedItems collection.
            For Each vrtSelectedItem In .SelectedItems

                'vrtSelectedItem is a String that contains the path of each selected item.
                'You can use any file I/O functions that you want to work with this path.
                'This example simply displays the path in a message box.
                MsgBox "Selected item's path: " & vrtSelectedItem

            Next vrtSelectedItem
        'If the user presses Cancel...
        Else
        End If
    End With

    'Set the object variable to Nothing.
    Set fd = Nothing

End Sub