Hi Thomas,
Seeing that you haven't received any responces as of yet, the only relative
path I know of is Application.Path, which returns the directory that the
Excel application is stored in. But that would mean you'd have to store your
files off of Excel's application path.
Another "out there" idea is to load the relative-portion of the path from a
text file.
HTH
Trent Argante
[DC.J(n/a)]


"thomas.naegeli@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> i have an excel-project with a separate xml file where config
> information is stored. this xml is reference through a public constant
> with an absolute path, like that:
>
> Public Const strXMLFile As String = "D:\Documents and
> Settings\t119637\Desktop\xls_work\Config\config.xml"
>
> This works as long as the xls file runs on the machine where this
> absolute file path is existing.
> If i'd like to move these files (the excel file with the vba code and
> the xml file) to another machine where this path is not existing, the
> excel sheet wont work cause the xml file is not found.
> Is there a ways to define a relative path to the xml file startin from
> the actual xls file?
> E.g:
> the excel is stored in:
> xls_work/myFile.xls
> and the xml file is stored in
> xls_work\Config\config.xml
>
> So i would assume that the vba code needs to determine what the path to
> the xls file is and add a /Config/config.xml to that path to have the
> xls file work with the settings in the xml file.
>
> I dont know the vba code that makes this possible
>
> help woul be greatly apreciated
> regards
> thomas
>
>