I'm trying to determine whether or not this can be done using VBA:

Using Windows Explorer, say, I double-click to open an Excel file
located in a directory other than the default Excel directory. In this
workbook is VBA code that attempts to open another workbook located in
the same directory:

Workbooks.Open "XYZ.xls"

The operation fails, apparently because it's looking in the default
Excel directory. Is there a way to specify that the program look in the
current, working directory?

Rich

Richard

Try....

Workbooks.Open ThisWorkBook.Path & "\XYZ.xls"

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XL2002
Regards

William


"Richard" wrote in message
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| I'm trying to determine whether or not this can be done using VBA:
|
| Using Windows Explorer, say, I double-click to open an Excel file
| located in a directory other than the default Excel directory. In this
| workbook is VBA code that attempts to open another workbook located in
| the same directory:
|
| Workbooks.Open "XYZ.xls"
|
| The operation fails, apparently because it's looking in the default
| Excel directory. Is there a way to specify that the program look in the
| current, working directory?
|
| Rich

Try to set a path variable inside of a procedure.

strPath = ThisWorkbook.Path

That will set the path to the current workbook. I've used that
successfully, but be warned... I've tried to set a private form
wide variable to do this to use between different procedures
and the variable doesn't keep itself intact. I can't figure out
what the deal is with that, but I get around it by declaring
(Dim) the variable in every procedure I need it and force the
ThisWorkbook.Path into it.

--
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com
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"Richard" wrote in message
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I'm trying to determine whether or not this can be done using VBA:

Using Windows Explorer, say, I double-click to open an Excel file
located in a directory other than the default Excel directory. In this
workbook is VBA code that attempts to open another workbook located in
the same directory:

Workbooks.Open "XYZ.xls"

The operation fails, apparently because it's looking in the default
Excel directory. Is there a way to specify that the program look in the
current, working directory?

Rich