common dialog is something that you can put into Excel if
you have VB6 registered.

It's coming up very plain, and I wanted detail.

perhaps it can't be set.

it's just a control in a form that has lots of properties,
but perhaps that's not one of them. It doesn't seem to
use the default preference of the user... if it did, that
would be fine.

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I don't know about the common control but generally the
type of file display
is a user preference. It's best to let the user set his
preference and just
go with it. If you use Excel's method for opening files: