Tricky Insert Object argument problem

Giunca

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Using Excel 2007, I am trying to use VBA to allow a user to insert (embed/attach) a file of their choosing to a spreadsheet. (It's a button-activated macro).

The xlDialogInsertObject method works fine by itself, but I would like the dialog box to appear with the "From File" tab already selected (not the "create new" tab), and I would like the icon option automatically selected, as well. When I try to modify the arguments of the code, the macro does not work and completely freezes excel.

This is the simple code I am using:

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogInsertObject).Show , " ", , True

Apparently, from my research, this is a problem that appeared starting with Excel 2007.

Anyone have any recommendations on how I can either get this to work or work around it?
 

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