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How to Get the File Path and File Name using Excel VBA?

In this post, you will be learning how to get the full File Path and File name using Excel VBA in your Excel Spreadsheet.

The file path and file name using Excel VBA can be accessed using the ‘.Path’ and ‘.FullName‘ properties.

How to Get the File Path using Excel VBA?

.Path Property

The Path property returns the complete, saved path of the workbook -Excel file.

How to Get File Name using Excel VBA?

.FullName Property

The FullName property returns the complete, saved path, including the name of the workbook.

Let’s see these properties with the help of an example.

• Create an Excel file and name it of your choice.
• Firstly, place a command button on your worksheet using the insert option in the Developer tab

Enter the following code in the VBA of the button:

This returns the complete path to the current excel file.

This line returns the complete path, including the name of the active workbook.

You need to enter the exact file name to find its path.

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How to get the excel file name / path in VBA

Say, I’m writing a VBA inside my excel file sample.xls. Now I want to get the full path of sample.xls in my VBA. How do I do it?

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If you mean VBA, then you can use FullName, for example:

(updated as considered by the comments: the former used ActiveWorkbook.FullName could more likely be wrong, if other office files may be open(ed) and active. But in case you stored the macro in another file, as mentioned by user @user7296559 here, and really want the file name of the macro-using file, ActiveWorkbook could be the correct choice, if it is guaranteed to be active at execution time.)

this is a simple alternative that gives all responses, Fullname, Path, filename.

If you need path only this is the most straightforward way:

if you need path only without file name:

it would return D:Folder

if you need file path with file name also:

it would return D:Foldersample.xls

if you need file name only:

it would return sample.xls

so if you want combine file path and file name to get full directory don’t forget to add «» between. otherwise its simpler using .Path

ActiveWorkbook.FullName would be better I think, in case you have the VBA Macro stored in another Excel Workbook, but you want to get the details of the Excel you are editing, not where the Macro resides.

If they reside in the same file, then it does not matter, but if they are in different files, and you want the file where the Data is rather than where the Macro is, then ActiveWorkbook is the one to go for, because it deals with both scenarios.

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16. VBA Tips — Get A File Path

Using VBA, there is a quick and easy way to obtain the file path of a file and return it to a sheet

• Use GetOpenFileName
• This brings up a dialog box that allows you to browse your files and choose a file
• You can then use that file path how you want

Here’s a screen shot of our setup in Excel:

When we press the button, we get this:

Once a file is selected, and «Open» is pressed, we can use the file path. in this case, we put it in a cell.

Here’s the code we use to get the file path:

Explanation:

1. GetOpenFilename allows you to enter the type of file you want to look for
2. The Open File dialog box then appears with only the desired file types showing.. (In our example, we look for text files)
3. When you choose one and press Open, it goes to a variable
4. If you press cancel, GetOpenFilename returns FALSE, so you need to check for that
5. You can use that file path as you want

Training Video on how to Get A File Path in Excel:

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Get A File Path

Thanks for sharing the code. Very useful.
Can the code be modified so that we just need to drag and drop the file into the selected cell?

Get a path

Thanks so much! it was really helpful and useful for my job again thanks!!

Get A File Path

Thanks for the code really useful. Just starting VB so not really flowing yet 🙂 How can you adjust the code so that it doesn\’t enter to d6 but to the cell selected by the user on the sheeet

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VBA Get Workbook Path & Location in Excel

VBA Get Workbook Path in Excel. We deal with multiple workbooks at a time. We may want to know Workbook path and its location. In the following tutorial we will learn to get Workbook complete Path and location using Path and FullName properties of Workbook.

Syntax to Get complete Path of the Workbook in Excel VBA

Here is the syntax of to Get Path of the Workbook in Excel VBA.

Where expression represents Workbook object.
Path represents a property of Workbook. It returns Workbook complete Workbook path.

Macro to Get Path of the Workbook in Excel VBA

Let us see the following macro to get path of the active Workbook in Excel VBA.

Here is the output screenshot of above macro.

VBA Code to Get Location of the current Workbook in Excel

Here is the following VBA Code to Get Location of the current Workbook in Excel.

Let us see the output screenshot of above VBA code.

Instructions to Run VBA Macro Code or Procedure:

You can refer the following link for the step by step instructions.

Other Useful Resources:

Click on the following links of the useful resources. These helps to learn and gain more knowledge.

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Browse for file path with VBA: insert value into cell

In this post, we look at how to browse for file path with VBA, and then insert the selected filepath into a cell.

This post is inspired by a question I received:

“If you would want to add a browse button right beside the cell that contains the file path so that you won’t need to manually copy and paste the file path in the cell, how would you do that?”

OK, let me show you the solution that I came up with.

Download the example file: Click the link below to download the example file used for this post:

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The solution

Before we look at how to build it, let’s look at the solution in action.

Cell C3 contains a file path, with a folder icon next to it.

If we click on the folder icon, the file open dialog box opens. We can select a file and click Open.

The file path is now inserted into cell C3.

If you’re here to find out how to do this yourself, then you’re in the right place 😁

Building the solution

Now we know what it does; let’s build it.

Create a named range

First, we need to create a named range for the cell containing the file path.

While this step isn’t essential, it reduces the risk of error. If we wrote a macro that references cell C3, then inserted a new row or column, the code in the macro doesn’t change, so it then refers to the wrong cell. Therefore, named ranges help to remove this risk.

1. Select the cell which contains the file path
2. In the name box, type filePath and press Enter
   

First step. Done. ✅

The VBA macro

The main driving force for this solution is a VBA macro.

If you have the Developer ribbon visible, click Developer > Visual Basic. if not, press ALT + F11.

The Visual Basic Editor opens.

Right-click the file in the Project window, then click Insert > Module from the menu.

A new code module opens. Enter the following code into the code module

The comments in the code describe the purpose of each section.

Please take careful note of the following, as you will need to change the code for your specific scenario.

ActiveSheet.Range(“filePath”).Value = dialogBox.SelectedItems(1)
Change the word filePath for the named range you created above.

dialogBox.InitialFileName = “C:UsersmarksDownloadsExample Folder”
This contains the default folder path where the file picker opens each time. Change this to match your environment.

dialogBox.Filters.Clear
dialogBox.Filters.Add “Excel workbooks”, “*.xlsx;*.xls;*.xlsm”
This code restricts the types of files that are shown in the file picker. The asterisk ( * ) is a wildcard character; any files ending in .xlsx, .xlsx, and .xlsm will be displayed. To add new file types, PDFs for example, add “;*.pdf” into the text string. Or, to allow all file types, remove the dialogbox.Filters.Add… line completely.

Once the code has been entered and amended to your scenario, close the Visual Basic Editor by clicking on the [X] at the window’s top right.

Insert folder picture

Now we need something to act as the button. I am going to use an Icon. Depending on your version of Excel, you may not have the Icons feature. But you can insert any picture or shape you wish.

To insert an icon like me, click Insert > Icons.

Search for “Folder”, in the icons window. Select the preferred icon and click Insert.

The image will be inserted onto the face of the worksheet.

Move and resize the image to be in the right location. I have also formatted the folder icon to be an orange color (similar to how folders look in the normal Windows environment).

Assign macro to picture

Finally, we assign the macro to the image. Right-click on the image and select Assign macro… from the menu.

From the Assign Macro window, click the selectFile macro (this is the name of the macro we created earlier), then click OK.

Test it out

That’s it. We’re done. Now go and test it out.

Conclusion

In this post, we have seen how to create a user interface for selecting files. Users can browse for a file path, then insert that into a cell. This is a really useful technique if using cell parameters in Power Query.

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