File Path Autotext -- No Drive Letter please!

[luciai]

Is there a way to modify the autotext "file path" in Word to show no drive letter?

 

[fumei]

Do you mean show all the path, but no drive letter? I am not sure why you would want the path without the drive letter. The syntax for path imcludes the drive. However, tecnically speaking, what is returned by AutoText is, in fact, text, and therefore can be edited. And certainly you could have a macro parse through the returned "file and path", and remove the drive letter, but it seems more work than it is worth. Do you want to remove the : as well? The first "\"?

Do you just want the file name?

Gerry

 

[luciai]

Hi Gerry,

I want to show all the file path except the "C:\". I would like to create that autotext so that it will be include in the footer of our documents to show internally. Thanks!

 

[macropod]

Hi,

The filename field only gives you a full filename with/without the full path. There's no option for displaying the path without the drive details. You would need to use a macro for that.

Cheers

 

[fumei]

The following macro displays a message box with the path, no drive letter. Message is just a string, so you could use it further, as needed.

Sub ShowPathNoDrive()
' note this assumes path is NOT UNC
' if UNC then would need more editing
' to pick out just local path on sever

Dim filenamepath As String
Dim pathlength As Integer
' path string
filenamepath = ActiveDocument.FullName
pathlength = Len(filenamepath) - 3 ' 'drive:\"
MsgBox Right(filenamepath, pathlength)
End Sub




Gerry