Fill textbox with selected items in filemanager - excel

I would like to write a program in VBA.
I would like a window to pop up when the program starts, where I can bring up the file manager with a button and the elements what are (multiple)selected here, would be placed in a textbox under each other and excel would open them all at once.
Now I finished the useform with one button and one textbox, and have a code for the button, to open the file manager and enabled the multiselect. Whats next? Anybody can help me?
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim fldlg As FileDialog
Set fldlg = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogOpen)
With fldlg
.AllowMultiSelect = True
.Title = "Find"
.InitialFileName = "C:\"
.Filters.Clear
.Filters.Add "Excel", "*.xls,*.xlsx"
End With
rv = fldlg.Show
If rv Then
MsgBox fldlg.SelectedItems(1)
End If
End Sub

To open all the files (or build a string listing them all), you need to cycle through the SelectedItems collection and use each in turn:
Dim fldlg As FileDialog
Set fldlg = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogOpen)
Dim strItems
With fldlg
.AllowMultiSelect = True
.Title = "Find"
.InitialFileName = "C:\"
.Filters.Clear
.Filters.Add "Excel", "*.xls,*.xlsx"
rv = .Show
If rv Then
'create a string of text for output using MsgBox
For Each SelectedItem In .SelectedItems
strItems = strItems & SelectedItem & Chr(13)
Next
'display string
MsgBox strItems
'open the files
For Each SelectedItem In .SelectedItems
Workbooks.Open SelectedItem
Next
End If
End With

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