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From: clydep@hplsla.HP.COM (Clyde Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Questions about Excel, forsooth
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Date: 9 Oct 89 22:50:18 GMT
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>/ hplsla:comp.sys.ibm.pc / jbjones@marlin.NOSC.MIL (John B. Jones) / 11:01 am  Sep 29, 1989 /

>Is there a way to configure the directory to be something other than the
>"windows" directory?  This was easy in Lotus, but I'm having trouble
>seeing how in Excel.
>
>John
>jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP
>----------
My boss wanted to do that too, so I wrote a batch file that looks like this:

@echo off
c:
cd c:\windows\files
c:\windows\win excel %1 %2 %3
cd c:\

Then instead of typing "excel" just type the name of the batch file.

This will make c:\windows\files your "default" directory for excel and will
allow you to load up to three spreadsheets with the command.  Of course if 
you wanted more, you would simply and more parameters to the run command.

Not exactly the same as 123, but if you just want to start in the same
directory all the time, it will work.

Clyde Phillips