Thank You So Much!!! It works great On Feb 3, 8:58 pm, KC Cheung <cheung.kc...@gmail.com> wrote: > add one more dim statement as below > Dim d1 As String > Dim d2 As String > Dim d3 As String > Dim d4 As String > Dim full_dir As String > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Dave <davidstev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the help I am getting a compile error when I run the code. > > the error is "ByRef argument type mismatch" & it highlights Call > > searchsub(full_dir) > > > On Feb 2, 8:20 pm, KC Cheung <cheung.kc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Air code, not tested > > > > Sub all_2010() > > > ' Macro to searh & display PDf files > > > Dim i As Long > > > dim d1 as string > > > dim d2 as string > > > dim d3 as string > > > dim d4 as string > > > > d1=inputbox("Select year, 1988-2010") > > > d2=inputbox("Select months, Jan-Dec") > > > d3=inputbox("Select A or B folder, default to both") > > > if d3="" then > > > d3="A-cast" > > > d4="B-cast" > > > end if > > > > full_dir="c:\Scans\TW\MAIN" & "\" & d1 & "\" & d2 & "\" & d3 > > > call searchsub(full_dir) > > > if d4<>"" then > > > full_dir="c:\Scans\TW\MAIN" & "\" & d1 & "\" & d2 & "\" & d4 > > > call searchsub(full_dir) > > > end if > > > > end sub > > > > sub searchsub(fulldirectory as string) > > > With Application.FileSearch > > > .NewSearch > > > .SearchSubFolders = True > > > .Filename = "*.pdf" > > > .LookIn = fulldirectory > > > .Execute > > > For i = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count > > > ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Range("A" & i), _ > > > Address:=.FoundFiles(i), TextToDisplay:= _ > > > Right(.FoundFiles(i), Len(.FoundFiles(i)) - _ > > > InStrRev(.FoundFiles(i), "\")) > > > Next > > > End With > > > End Sub > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Dave <davidstev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have the code listed below that searches a folder and if it finds > > > > any PDF files its displays them with a hyperlink in the spreadsheet. > > > > My > > > > problem is that under the MAIN folder I have tons of files now and > > > > its very hard to find the PDF I am looking for. > > > > > I redid my file structure under main and now I have folders for years > > > > 2010, 2012,2013,2014,2015 and so on. Under each years directory are > > > > the > > > > directories for the 12 months of the year & under each of these > > > > months I have two folders A-cast & B-cast. > > > > > What I would like is that the code could search the folders starting > > > > form MAIN by prompting the user for the year, & than the month & then > > > > the folder name And then display contents of the folder as results > > > > on the spreadsheet If a user did not have lets say the folder names > > > > A- cast & B-cast the program could display contents of both A-cast & B- > > > > cast. > > > > > Here is the code I got from the forum. > > > > > Sub all_2010() > > > > ' Macro to searh & display PDf files > > > > Dim i As Long > > > > With Application.FileSearch > > > > .NewSearch > > > > .SearchSubFolders = True > > > > .Filename = "*.pdf" > > > > .LookIn = "c:\Scans\TW\MAIN" > > > > .Execute > > > > For i = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count > > > > ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Range("A" & i), _ > > > > Address:=.FoundFiles(i), TextToDisplay:= _ > > > > Right(.FoundFiles(i), Len(.FoundFiles(i)) - _ > > > > InStrRev(.FoundFiles(i), "\")) > > > > Next > > > > End With > > > > End Sub > > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Some important links for excel users: > > > > 1. 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