>Hi David,
>
>>I'm using aprinters() to fill a combo box with available printers on an winNT PC. The network printers lose the first '\' and shows '\computername\sharedprinter' instead of '\\computername\sharedprinter'. Is this a feature or have I run into a problem?
>
>A backslash as the first character indicates a disabled item. Add a blank to the printer path.
>
>Christof

With rowsourcetype = (none) adding "hello\\hello" still gives "hello\hello" - enabled. I suppose I will replace all "\"s with another character an use strtran to replace it later.

Thanks for the responses.