You're thinking in terms of what you would do if you were operating
Word with the keyboard and mouse. VBA doesn't work that way.

The VBA way is to create an object that represents the dialog, then
set its properties so it will do what you want, and finally start it
running. In this case, the property of interest is called .Name, and
it represents the contents of the Filename box in the dialog. If you
set that property to the complete folder path and end it with a
backslash instead of a filename, the dialog will immediately open with
that folder visible:

Sub demo()
   Dim dlg As Dialog
   Set dlg = Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen)
   
   With dlg
       .Name = "C:\Some folder\Some subfolder\"
       .Show
   End With
End Sub

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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