Thanks - I read everything I could on "path" - Never thought about directory. It is what I needed.

Thank - I now know more a whole lot more about the path commands than I ever did.

Thanks again

Gaylen



>I have a form where the user enter in a text box the path and filename for an extract of a table using copy to .... type xls.
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>I want to error trap the path as they seem to have trouble typing in a path. I can get the path from the text box by using justpath(). How do I check that the path entered is correct.
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>I know there probably is a simple answer, but at this point I am brain dead on this project.
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>Thank
Hi Gaylen,

>>Look at the DIRECTORY() function in help.