Set Default Directory

[bw]

I sent this earlier, but without a subject, and the news group appears to require a subject,
so I'm sending it again....
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I have the following two statements (among others, of course):

TheFileName = Application.GetOpenFilename("Text Files (*.txt), *.txt")

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=TheFileName, Origin:=xlWindows, _
StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlFixedWidth, FieldInfo:=myArray

I would like the default directory to begin looking in to be C:\

I have tried the following with no success:

TheFileName = Application.GetOpenFilename("Text Files (*.txt), C:\.txt")

Thanks,
Bernie

 

[Ron de Bruin]

I posted this:

Try this

I will save your default folder first to set it back at the end

Sub test()
Dim SaveDriveDir As String
Dim TheFileName As Variant
SaveDriveDir = CurDir
ChDrive "C"
ChDir "C:\"
TheFileName = Application.GetOpenFilename("Text Files (*.txt), C:\.txt")

MsgBox "your code"

ChDrive SaveDriveDir
ChDir SaveDriveDir
End Sub

 

[Rob Bovey]

Hi Bernie

This should do the trick for you:

ChDrive "C"
ChDir "C:\"
TheFileName = Application.GetOpenFilename("Text Files (*.txt), *.txt")

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Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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[Ron de Bruin]

I didn't see your other post...I wonder why?

The Subject is NONE

 

[steve]

bw,

Know what you mean. For some reason I'm not seeing all the posts either.
But using Find is a big help. You can even have it search by sender.

steve