>What is the best way to code a program for accessing files. For instance...if you hard code into the program to open a file "open c:\example\abc.txt", and the user did a default install, everything is fine. But if the user decides to change the default install directory, the file is not there.
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>Help.

Always use App.Path in front of the file name to get to the application's directory. If the files are located within another subdirectory, use App.Path & "\myFolder\abc.txt".
HTH