Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserOptionsPath)

[Howard Kaikow]

Where's the documentation for the meaning of wdUserOptionsPath?
Al I see in the Help is the existence of the option, but no semantics.

Using Word 2003, I see the following behavior.

Depending on whether I run code directly from VBA or via automation in VB 6,
I get entirely different critters.
As I recall, I've see 3 different results, depending on how the code was
run.

1. ":\documents and settings\howard kaikow\application
data\microsoft\templates\templates2003", i.e., the directory in which the
Word template lives, when run in VBA.
2. :\WinNT\System32, when run in VB 6 design window or from a VB 6 compiled
..exe file.
3. My Documents, I saw this yesterday, but do not recall how the code was
run, as I recall it was in VBA.

All the other DefaultFilePath results are the same, no matter how I run the
code, other than wdUserOptionsPath and, as expected, wdCurrentFolderPath.

I would think that wdUserOptionsPath should refer to the same directory no
matter how the code is run.

 

[Jezebel]

I don't have any inside knowledge on this, but my understanding is if the
value hasn't been set (through code or through Options > File locations), it
simply returns the current folder.

That's certainly the case on my machine for wdUserOptionsPath. Just testing
it in the immediate window, it returns the same as wdCurrentFolderPath --
namely whatever folder that is displayed if you bring up the File > Open
dialog. (Hence your MyDocuments result?) Open a file from another folder and
the return value changes to that folder. VB and VBA have their own ideas
about Word's current folder.

 

[Howard Kaikow]

The VB 6 .exe file is being run from "D:\Visual Basic
Code\WordSettings\WordSettingsEXE" and returns x:\winnt\system32.
This is an odd result because VB 6 usually chooses "X:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98"

Where x is the drive letter of the system drive. This is a multiboot system,
so X changes for each Office version.

As I recall, the VBA version returns either MY Documents or the Template
directory.
I forget the circumstances.
--
http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.

I don't have any inside knowledge on this, but my understanding is if the
value hasn't been set (through code or through Options > File locations), it
simply returns the current folder.

That's certainly the case on my machine for wdUserOptionsPath. Just testing
it in the immediate window, it returns the same as wdCurrentFolderPath --
namely whatever folder that is displayed if you bring up the File > Open
dialog. (Hence your MyDocuments result?) Open a file from another folder and
the return value changes to that folder. VB and VBA have their own ideas
about Word's current folder.

Where's the documentation for the meaning of wdUserOptionsPath?
Al I see in the Help is the existence of the option, but no semantics.

Using Word 2003, I see the following behavior.

Depending on whether I run code directly from VBA or via automation in

VB