For readability use the conventionally named constants, eg
Const CSIDL_PERSONAL = &H5 ‘ my documents
(ignore any “amp;” that might creep in before the “H”)

Since I don’t understand the code, I don’t know how to modify it, or whether it is even possible to modify it.

I had no idea you could access Wscript from VBA. I will be looking into that possibility to do this task.

You know…it’s funny you say that. I recently spent some time gathering some code examples for a class I’m giving and I realized that I often lean toward variations of code that I can read and understand. I’m sure that leaves me doing some things “inefficiently”. But I’m willing to trade some inefficiency for something I can read and explain to others.

I remember Bill Jelen once told me that Aladin Akyurek (a poster on his site) creates the most amazing array formulas to solve most problems. He tells people that if they ever get a formula from Aladin, just copy and paste it into the cell. Don’t worry how it works…it will just work. I can, of course, appreciate the charm of that statement, but I know it would frustrate me on some level to have some formula I don’t fully understand working in my spreadsheet.

I guess I feel the same way about code.

I’ve done a couple minor one-off type spreadsheets that relied on nobody doing what I did to my home computer. That’s not optimal and was bound to backfire on me some day. Now I can fix the code.

The other part I like about it is that I can actually read and follow the code. I know I could incorporate that into my projects without wondering why it worked.

It’s a habit I developed based on that article.

But Dick specifies it as Environ$, why the $? is it purely optional or does it have a modifying effect?