How to select more than one file on a Mac. To select every file in a given location, you can left-click on empty space (not on a file, e.g.) and drag the mouse to create a box encompassing every.
- Click on the first file you want to select, then press and hold the Command key and select the other files. You can drag over contiguous files while holding the Command key to select them, then let go of the mouse button and carry on selecting discontiguous files. To deselect files, hold the Command key down and simply click them.
- On your Mac, select a disk, folder, or file, then choose File Get Info. If the information in Sharing & Permissions isn't visible, click the arrow. If the lock at the bottom right is locked, click it to unlock the Get Info options, then enter an administrator name and password. Click a user or group in the Name column, then choose a privilege setting from the pop-up menu.
Select files on a Mac (GetOpenFilename)
In Windows we can use for example GetOpenFilename to select files and do what we want with the path results, you can use filefilter to only display the files you want and use MultiSelect to select more then one file. Also it is possible with ChDrive and ChDir to set the folder that is selected when GetOpenFilename opens, see a example on the bottom of this page for Excel for Windows.
But on a Mac the filefilter is not working and it is not possible to select more then one file. Also ChDir is not working like in Windows to set the folder that will open with GetOpenFilename. But we can use a combination of VBA and Applescript, see example below that only let you select xlsx files and you can set the start folder.
Important : The file location can be very important in Mac Excel 2016, read : Problems with Apple's sandbox requirements in Mac Office 2016 and higher with VBA code
Example for Mac Excel 2011 and 2016 and higher
Note : Do not forget to copy the bIsBookOpen function below the macro.
You can run the macro below without changing it, it opens the Desktop in the file select dialog and you can only select one xlsx file now, see the code how to change this.
Note : If you got problems with the code please report it to me so i can fix it.
Other file formats are :
In the macro you see this code line that say which file format you can select (xlsx).
FileFormat = '{'org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet'}'
If you want more then one format you can use this to be able to also select xls files.
FileFormat = '{'org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet','com.microsoft.Excel.xls'}'
This is a list of a few formats that you can use :
xls : com.microsoft.Excel.xls
xlsx : org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet
xlsm : org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet.macroenabled
xlsb : com.microsoft.Excel.sheet.binary.macroenabled
Fl studio 20 mac. csv : public.comma-separated-values-text
doc : com.microsoft.word.doc
docx : org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document
How To Select Multiple Discontinuous Files On Mac
docm : org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document.macroenabled
ppt : com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt
How To Select 2 Files On Mac
pptx : org.openxmlformats.presentationml.presentation
Other file formats are :
In the macro you see this code line that say which file format you can select (xlsx).
FileFormat = '{'org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet'}'
If you want more then one format you can use this to be able to also select xls files.
FileFormat = '{'org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet','com.microsoft.Excel.xls'}'
This is a list of a few formats that you can use :
xls : com.microsoft.Excel.xls
xlsx : org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet
xlsm : org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet.macroenabled
xlsb : com.microsoft.Excel.sheet.binary.macroenabled
Fl studio 20 mac. csv : public.comma-separated-values-text
doc : com.microsoft.word.doc
docx : org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document
How To Select Multiple Discontinuous Files On Mac
docm : org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document.macroenabled
ppt : com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt
How To Select 2 Files On Mac
pptx : org.openxmlformats.presentationml.presentation
pptm : org.openxmlformats.presentationml.presentation.macroenabled
txt : public.plain-text
pdf : com.adobe.pdf
jpg : public.jpeg
png : public.png
QIF : com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text
htm : public.html
If you need to know another format send me a mail and I try to help you.
Example for Excel for Windows
Note: The macro example for Windows and Mac are both using this function to test if the file is open.
How To Open Mac Files
In Windows you can use filefilter to only display the files you want and use MultiSelect to select more then one file. Check mac adress on alexa device. Also it is possible with ChDrive and ChDir to set the folder that is selected when GetOpenFilename opens, see basic Windows example below :
When you want to add more filters you can use this in the Windows macro to filter on xls and csv files
