Need help to browse by file (msoFileDialogFilePicker) instead by folder

What kind of documents are you attempting to open?

If you arfe using FilePicker then the selected item will be the full name, i.e. the path and file name, so

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would not be useable as currently defined. In fact, the Dir funtion would not really be necessary since you can use FilePicker to loop through the files you want. In the code for the FolderPicker The strFolderA variable has the separator (\) added to the path, That separator would need to be included in a version that used FilePicker if the path is broken out separately from the FullName

Try something along the lines of:

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You might try inserting either:
ActiveWindow.Next.Activate
or:
Documents(Documents.Count).Activate
before:
Application.Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs).Show

It might help to move:
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
before:
Application.Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs).Show
also.

Hi,
I've tried a combination of your suggestions but the code does not save the newly created document with tracked changes.

I use your code by opening a new blank MS Word document, inserting a new module, pasting in your code and running the macro (developer / macros). This allows me to look for Doc1 and Doc2 for comparison (thanks for that - works great!) and your code generates a new document with tracked changes. However, the code saves the blank document that I am using to run the code instead of saving the document with tracked changes (the tracked changes document always have a filename of Compare Result 1, etc.)

Thanks for your help

I've revised the code in post #5. Try it now.

Brilliant!! Working now.

I see what you've done. You created a new document object (Dim DocRev As Document) and used that as the active document. Nice one. Thanks for your help

Originally Posted by jk20

This is an amazing thread and thanks so much to those who have tackled this before. Is there a way to make it such that when the dialog box that automatically comes up to save the comparison document points to the folder in which the original or revised document is in?

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