OfficeUser wrote:

> Thanks, Malke, for the quick response and for the explanation!
>
> So, the following line of code opens the Stock Inventory.xls workbook in
> Excel.
> Workbooks.Open("C:\Stock Inventory\Stock Inventory.xls")
> Will that line of code succed or fail by not putting the IBM_Preload
> volume name in front of C?

Once more time: the name of the volume/drive has nothing to do with its real
location. It's a human identification, not a machine identification.

Are you talking about writing a program in some programming language? If so,
you need to use the correct variables for that language. For example, in a
simple script you might use %systemdrive% instead of C:\. You should check
with a programmers' newsgroup for whatever programming language you're
writing in. This isn't a Windows XP issue.

Malke
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