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Getting the full path when from a File Open Dialog Box
Is there an easy way to obtain the full path for a file from an File
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Getting the full path when from a File Open Dialog Box
"Ric Payne" wrote in message
om... Is there an easy way to obtain the full path for a file from an File Open Dialog Box? Hi Ric, I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. When you use the Application.GetOpenFilename method to prompt the user to select a file, it returns the full path and filename of whatever file the user selects. If this isn't what you're looking for, can you be a bit more specific? -- Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP Application Professionals http://www.appspro.com/ * Please post all replies to this newsgroup * * I delete all unsolicited e-mail responses * |
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Hi Ric,
If the user uses the built-in File/Open dialog to open a file, the current directory is automatically changed to the path the file was opened from. If you want to see what that directory is, you can get the full path and file name for any previously saved workbook using: Workbooks("MyBook.xls").Path -- Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP Application Professionals http://www.appspro.com/ * Please post all replies to this newsgroup * * I delete all unsolicited e-mail responses * "Ric Payne" wrote in message ... Thank you for your response Rob. What I want is to be able to identify the full path name when a user opens a file using the File Open Dialog box and browses to a different folder to the one that is currently being used. That will enable me to set the new path as the default for the file that is being worked on. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. Ric Payne *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it! |
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Getting the full path when from a File Open Dialog Box
Thank you again Rob.
Because I am only opening the file to get some data then closing it again i wanted to capture the path so that when i subsequently saved it i would go to the directory from which i originally got it and that directory may not be the default directory which contains other data files. I figured that one way to do that was immediately after using the file open or save dialog to cath the path as follows NameOfPath=Left(FileName,InStrRev(FileName,"\")) Where FileName is the name of the xls file that i opened. That strips out the file name and leaves me with the path. Do you see any problems with this? "Rob Bovey" wrote in message ... Hi Ric, If the user uses the built-in File/Open dialog to open a file, the current directory is automatically changed to the path the file was opened from. If you want to see what that directory is, you can get the full path and file name for any previously saved workbook using: Workbooks("MyBook.xls").Path -- Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP Application Professionals http://www.appspro.com/ * Please post all replies to this newsgroup * * I delete all unsolicited e-mail responses * "Ric Payne" wrote in message ... Thank you for your response Rob. What I want is to be able to identify the full path name when a user opens a file using the File Open Dialog box and browses to a different folder to the one that is currently being used. That will enable me to set the new path as the default for the file that is being worked on. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. Ric Payne *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it! |
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