VBA to BROWSE & COPY Data from SELECTED File in Excel

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Use this simple Excel VBA macro to allow the user to browse for the file they need to import or copy the data from. They will get Excel's open File Dialog Box and they can browse and select the workbook to copy the data from. We use VBA GetOpenFilename method to Open the workbook selected in the background, copy the data and then close the workbook. The user will not even realize the other workbook was opened in the background.
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I will also show you how to avoid getting the message "method getopenfilename of '_application' failed". This is a common error when using the application.getopenfilename method and it can easily be avoided by declaring the correct variable type.
👩‍💻 What You'll Learn:
- User Flexibility with GetOpenFileName: Understand how to allow users to select files via Excel's Open dialog box.
- Efficient File Handling in VBA: Learn to open, import, and manipulate data from selected files without hardcoding paths.
- Practical Example: Follow a step-by-step guide to open a file, copy a range, and paste it into a designated area in your workbook.
- Multi-Selection Feature: Discover how to handle multiple file selections for bulk data processing.
🔥 Key Takeaways:
- Customizable File Paths: Free yourself from fixed file paths in VBA code or Excel cells.
- Simple Yet Powerful: Leverage the simplicity of the method for complex file handling tasks.
- Error Handling: Understand how to manage user cancellations and incorrect file selections.
You can expand on this Excel macro to copy data from multiple ranges or multiple sheets or create dynamic ranges.
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[@LeilaGharani]

Grab the file I used in the video from here 👉 pages.xelplus.com/vba-select-file

[@ronvds4713]

Most people I deal with look at spreadsheets as a glorified calculator and are amazed at what I do for them. And then you come along and I am amazed.

[@LeilaGharani]

I'm glad I can still surprise you :)

[@Matt-zp9jg]

For those wanting their copied range to be a bit more dynamic use this. OpenBook.Sheets(1).Range("A2").Select Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlToRight)).Select Selection.Copy The only problem with this is it stops if there are any empty rows. So make sure to check your data! LastRow = Sheets(1).Cells(Sheets(1).Rows.Count, StartCell.Column).End(xlUp).Row LastColumn = Sheets(1).Cells(StartCell.Row, Sheets(1).Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column Sheets(1).Range(StartCell, Sheets(1).Cells(LastRow, LastColumn)).Copy This code on the other hand will work and count data even if there any empty rows between data. I'm still trying to incorporate this code into her macro to work so far no luck haha!

[@danieljosiahquijano5659]

ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("HW15").Range("A1").PasteSpecial xlPasteAll At this part, I am encountering error, that highlights this as yellow. Can somebody help? While my colleague uses the same code, but works fine.

[@Matt-zp9jg]

@@danieljosiahquijano5659 Could be many things: possible your code has not selected anything to copy. Paste will fail if nothing copied. Your range is different than your paste area. Also better to use this: high lighting entire column a even Blanks. Dim rng As Range Set rng = Range("A2", Range("A" & Rows.count.End(xlup).Address) rng.Copy Range("B2").PasteSpecial xlPasteAll

[@johnhayse7147]

@@danieljosiahquijano5659 Did you figure it out? I'm have the same problem :/

[@danieljosiahquijano5659]

@@johnhayse7147 I did, when you are recording a macro, under "Store macro in", select dropdown "This Workbook". it is a very specific code.

[@johnhayse7147]

@@danieljosiahquijano5659 Thanks!

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I know exactly what you mean Thomas. Been in the corporate world myself for quite a while trying to navigate around the IT guidelines :)

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I am trying to find a VBA code that will find a file utilizing where only the first six characters in the file name are always same and the file name ends with YYYY.MM.DD.xlsx. now my file is under 2020 folder and have to create seprate folder for each monts like Jan, Feb and Mar under 2020 folder, then in the each month file we have to change and create file on daily basis like this _ Y:\C & C FEES\Suresh\anbu 2020\04_Apr 2020\InvoicesDD.MM.YY(daily need to change the file date and monthly once change the month).

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I'm glad if my videos are helpful in the corporate world :)

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[@LeilaGharani]

That's great Craig. I'm glad you like the course. Many thanks for the feedback!

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A whole new(amazing) world hidden behide Excel .Learning VBA is the next target for me.Thanks again for all you give to us .

[@alexpspa60]

amazing!!! do you have a video on how to import multiple files?! 😊

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[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome. I'm glad to have you here.

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Thank you. Finally someone who explains this stuff very well?

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[@LeilaGharani]

I'm trying my best :)

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Thanks for usual support in Excel every day learn new topic

[@shrutiagarwal936]

Hi, i really like how easily and precisely you explain things. I have a query though, what should i do if i want to get data by opening a link which is a link to excel sheet and not from any worksheet which is saved in my PC.

[@GrahamSchroder]

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[@LeilaGharani]

Happy to hear that!

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Awesome job, Leila! I can see myself using this in the future.

[@LeilaGharani]

That's good to hear Bobby.

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Hi Leila. This video has really helped in one of my excel project of my process flow. I sincerely appreciate you for making this video. I would have loved to share my automation made out of this information, but, considering confidentialty, not possible. Thanks again for making and sharing. Will also go through your other videos.

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[@civilworks3591]

hi, thank you for lots of tutorials you made. appreciate if you continue or added the program to paste on the last row please. TIA.

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Great Video 👍🏻.. thanks for sharing

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for the lightning fast comment Faraz :)

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@tha2ir Talib beautiful teacher, and good mind, thank you leila .

[@dhruvakerkar6956]

Wow I was actually using "Path" option in excel all this long...this really help...Thanks

[@user-zu5fe9yi2m]

BIG THANKS LAILA

[@buradagunta1]

Hi, this is very helpful. would you explain considering the csv file instead xlsx file, copy data from sheet 1 of csv file opened and paste in the current workbook. Thank you

[@anomolyreport]

And here I thought openfiledialog and filesystem objects are the only ways to get file names.. Thank you!!

[@hddevani]

As always, excellent Top-Notch Pure explanation...

[@arere9948]

TYSM for such an informative instruction, help me a lot 🥰

[@justinsincoise6693]

I work in a hotel as a night Auditor. Someone managed to do his job at a fraction of a time because of time. Been trying to find out how he could import the report from our opera cloud into our excel. In a form of a format. This video gives a good example but I still need help. 😮

[@twgrisham]

Well done. Very easy to follow and understand. How would handle a dynamic range in OpenBook?

[@kurtauerbach5883]

Thanks this really helped me out. Clear and not boring!

[@samirawati1975]

Wouderful video madam, can you please give this file for practice in description

[@francoismarsau6412]

Great videos as always. I have signed up for some courses of yours to learm more. You are geat teacher. you mentioned that " and copy specific ranges and import them in our file will be shown later how to do". Can you give example of this or tell me lesson no in you course that explains this as I could not find it. Thank you once again for great courses and video content.

[@smohanv]

This is a kind of VBA idea i was searching for. Thanks. I have subscribed to this channel as well. Thanks a million.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to help. It's great to have you here.

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Thanks for this useful lesson, you are the best 👏👏

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Thank you so much!! Extremely helpful video!!

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Very good Leila!!! than ks for this video!!!

[@Ca7a1n]

Hi Leila and thank you very much for your useful videos! I have a problem with this code - it doesn`t work on MAC. Do you have a solution for this ? Thank you! Best regards!

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Excellent.. Thank you very much for sharing your valuable knowledge with us Leila. 👍 👏 🌟

[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome. Glad you like it.

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Great!!! It is exactly what I was looking for!!! You are the best!!!

[@spneerajmishra]

Great help thank you 😊

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Hi Leila. Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing this :)) Thumbs up!!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Llb890]

this is the way to increase knowledge

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad the tutorial is useful.

[@junangeles]

This is what I've been looking for for my reporting! thanks so much. How about before pasting to destination sheet, a prompt or option to select the new range will be prompted or even paste data to the next blank row below the 1st copied file, is that possible? pls. thanks

[@mc24bk]

Great video, very easy to understand. How to copy the entire column A & B without setting a range number?

[@vaishalikhedlekar3733]

This is really great !! But would like to understand how can we apply filter on the selected file based on a certain criteria and copy only the filtered data on the macro workbook.

[@arifhk007]

I like your videos from other youtube videos...Coz your teaching style is very helpful and clear! Thank you, Mam!

[@LeilaGharani]

I'm very glad to hear that :)

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you are just awesome

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Thanks! Always very helpful!

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Nice tutorial mam. God bless you

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Hi Leila Gharani ! i always concern your videos when i face some issue in my macro code. perfect videos highly recommend, how can i learn all the Vba techniques quickly and efficiently please guide me . Regards

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Very useful and practical. Thank you for the great material!

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[@LeilaGharani]

First or not I'm always happy to see your comments :)

[@samirmohapatra8582]

Very useful ❤. Thank you so much 😊

[@jayeshjamtani924]

Thank you #LeilaGharani #ExcelQueen for sharing this wonderful way to open files. I am a big fan of yours ( more than of Excel )

[@LeilaGharani]

I'm happy to hear that :)

[@rodrigodavalle5738]

This is great! Thank you so much. I would like to know how should I change the code in order to paste the range in the active cell?

[@anastasioualex]

Try using: Range(cell("address")

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You rock the item. Super

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Good one...btw, how can someone dislike this video ?

[@stephanie_ong]

Thanks! I was able to use your method perfectly :)

[@Redtorres16]

Thank you very much for this i have a question how if the data of import file I want it to be icopy in the last record of my database what code to be added? Can you please mam............more power and God bless.

[@joecross5335]

Helpful. I didn't know that method existed.

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Thanks Leila, I got your VBA videos.

[@LeilaGharani]

That's great Rahul. Thanks for your support.

[@augustodemelo915]

It is great!!! Thank you so much for this very valuable information.

[@mielkew27]

As always simple and easy to follow. But how can we clear the Clipboard as I'm getting notification every time I run the Macro.

[@yflow5337]

How a beautilul Women! And how helpful information!

[@farizpatah4081]

Finally got this macro.. Thanks a lot...

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to help :)

[@awaisnadeem9325]

And what if we want to copy data from multiple excel files. I want the same result but what I want is that, I must have the flexibility to select different files and it must copy them after and after again. Can you please help me about it? I am waiting for your kind response. Please guide me.

[@jimneely100]

1st Thank You for these Videos. This video was exactly what I was looking for. Simply, I need to open a CVS file from my excel and copy the CVS file to my excel file. However, I am finding this code does not work at thisworkbook.worksheets(). I have tried every way and still get the same. It opens the CVS but instead of coping to my workbook, it creates a new workbook.

[@jimneely100]

got it fixed this is great. Again Thanks

[@viniciusfaria9355]

Jim, how did you correct the error? I'm getting the same problem

[@MohAboAbdo]

Thank you so much

[@badreddineessahi6457]

Hi there, thank you for the video, I did exactly what you explained but I'm getting an error 9 saying index out of range, could you please help with a workaround for this error

[@antoniomusso1608]

All you have to do is change the code from: Worksheets(“SelectFile”) to: Sheets(1)

[@vinaynimje97]

I m following your channel since long. I have learnt a lot. Thank U . I have one question .. i want to update data if condition met i.e. ID, If ID Exists data should be updated but if ID doesn't exist the data should be save in last row of database. Kindly help.

[@ramavtarsingh146]

Very useful thanks a lot, Keep it up.

[@swapnilsakpal2504]

Awesome video ma'am..much needed. iTs working for me. Thanks a lot. going one step ahead, I've a small huddle. I need to use index match formula within the same code, I tried but failed. Instead of defining the cells from source file. i need macro to use index match function and get the result in active sheet. Could you please assist me. Thank you so much in advance

[@titsermon]

Very informative. Gonna try it later.

[@rockhammer5334]

thanks for very helpful video. I find that IF VarType(FileToOpen) = vbString And len(FileToOpen) > 1 is better able to handle the different cases.

[@mohdkharish8169]

Thanks a lot.. Awesome.. for next can you update for select file with multiple file.. Thanks

[@JuzSayWooo]

Thank you so much! I literally learn VBA from you and I have no background before this. Can I ask, what does the “title” argument actually do? I don’t get that part...

[@robertakwasiadjei8223]

Very much grateful Leila.

[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome Robert!

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Wish I could do that :) :) I am enrolling to your course for sure.

[@edgovan1]

Is there any way of skipping rows? For example, conditional on whether data in a column of the range in the source data has "skip" written in it. Thank you for an excellent video - subscribed.

[@totallycybertechnologies1631]

Fantastic video. Exactly what I need. After the user selects the file, is there a way for the user to select which data he/she would like to copy into cell A10?

[@user-zh7km3ph7b]

Thanks a lot. it is usefully for me

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Wow Leila you are looking very nice beautiful and amazing video well done 😊😊❤️❤️👍👍

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you, glad you like it :)

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My pleasure Leila yup a lot 😊😊❤️❤️👍👍

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You are the best ever.... life saver oh my gosh

[@LongTruong-kh4vi]

thanks so much

[@jonathanjesusdelvillarrebo7429]

Hello good night your video is very well explained, I just wanted to ask a question: How can I make a filter inside the files that opened and copy the data from the filter result?

[@Interphaseable]

Wonderful video!

[@jeandaniel521]

Amazing, this saved me so much time :)

[@LeilaGharani]

Great to hear!

[@puranbisht6228]

Thanks for the wonderful video. Not a single moment when i felt bored seeing it. Amazing🤗 One doubt🤔, how can we browse and update from two different files.

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excel-lent as always, Leila is stunning 👍🏻

[@esbi1124]

Really good!

[@rimantasdanilevicius6754]

hi, nice tutorial. Seems very shot and informative! Maybe you have tutorial where you selecting multiply files and importing data to separate sheets in one workbook and rename every sheet like file name?