>Dear All
>
>After reinstalling VFP on a new machine with Office 2013, I got into very strange situation where OLE automation will no longer
>accept relative paths. The same code was working ok past 10 years.
>
>It is happening only in development mode (inside VFP ide) when compiled into EXE everything works ok.
>
>
>

>cFile='\templates\some.xls'
>if file(cFile)  &&file does exist!
>  oXl.workbooks.open(cFile)      &&Cannot find file
>  .
>  ****BUT
>  .  
>  cFile='c:\templates\some.xls'
>  oXl.workbooks.open(cFile)      &&Opens ok
>
>  .
>

>
>
>The same goes for outlook object attaching file with relative path. As if it applies for all office (or OLE automation with office) .
>Did not try word or anything else.
>
>What am I missing here ?
>Anybody have any idea why is this happening ?
>
>
>TIA
>Sergio

I learned to never trust relattive paths when it comes to automation.
The application have one MS Office has others :-)
That is why i always use FULLPATH() :-)