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Changing the Default Drive

Summary: A single line of code is all it takes to change the default drive in your VBA macro. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)

Oftentimes it is helpful, in a macro, to specify which drive is considered the default drive. In other words, it may be helpful to indicate the drive on which all file operations should occur when you don't explicitly indicate a drive in a path name. To indicate the default drive to be used in a VBA macro, you use the ChDrive statement, as follows:

ChDrive "E"

This particular statement changes the current drive to E:. You can change to a different drive by simply changing the drive letter enclosed within the quote marks.

Tip #829 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003


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