>Cetin
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>Thanks - perfect (and simple! and therefore really perfect!!)
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>Mike
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>PS - I'm not quite sure what George Tasker is referring to in his comment.
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>PPS - Being greedy: Is there any way of setting the initial directory (again, as in GETDIR())
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>Mike

Mike,
Yes there is but with simple BrowseForFolder if you specify it, it's accepted as 'Root' and user cannot browse to folders above it in hierarchy. ie:
if you say 'c:\my documents' all user could browse is 'my documnents' and its subfolders.
What George meant was I needn't to GetActiveWindow(), taht could be 0.

oShell = createobject("Shell.Application")
oFolder = oShell.BrowseForFolder(0, "Please Select folder", 0, ;
 '\\poseidon\public' )
? oFolder.Items.Item.Path

Cetin