Gordon,

It seems to me that if you're writing this application in
VB, you should have no problem using a menu to set certain
parameters including the location of such a file. You'd
simply use the the FileSystemObject to do file operations
(read, write, append).
Each user would have a stand alone copy of the application
and can manage their own settings. During the intial
execution of the program, it should check to see if
this "INI" file exists, if it doesn't then the user must
obviously be prompted for the path.

-Tim

-----Original Message-----

Thanks to a Wild Bill, but his suggestion was where I
started - it don't
work.

Thanks to Tom Ogilvy for a practical route. But I had
forgotten
something in my original query: I was trying to add a
clever bit in
Word.

The system which I am converting to VB is for consultant
medics. It is
all in Excel: it has a diary for consultations and
treatments: it
records fees, sends invoices, records payments received
etc. For a
brief note to a patient, there is an Excel sheet which
comes up with
name and address, details of the malady, treatment dates,
and a text box
adequate for the consultant to add a brief note. But
some of them
would like to be able to bring up the same stuff on a
Word sheet, so
that they could write below it pages and pages of advice
and explanation
if necessary. The Word sheet would have the
consultant's name and
address on it already.

Other than the user editing of the VB code which brings
up the Word
file, is there a way for the user to enter the drive \
direction \
filename on installing, so that it can remain until it
needs to be
changed eg a new computer?


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