>>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() :-)

Also adir(laDir, cFile)>0 is safer than File()