>Hmmm, an interesting suggestion ... but I think that it applies to the Next session you open, not the current one.
>
>>>Ed --
>>>
>>>I saw that as well. Unfortunately, it appears to do so permanently. I want it to happen just for the current session.
>>>
>>>Jim
>>
>>Jim,
>>How about storing the default, changing it as in my example during the session, and before releasing the object, change it back to the original default?
>>
>>Ed

This one really bugged me because there is a command but I couldn't seem to execute it from vfp. If you run a macro in excel you'll find that the command:

Chdir "c:\excel\files"

gets executed if you start to save as... (and change the directory to c:\excel\files) but don't complete it. If you figure out how to run this macro from vfp, then maybe it would work.

Ed