Re: Mac OSX VBA bug

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From: John Korchok (jkorchok_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:44:59 GMT

Thanks! 

-- 
John Korchok
Word Lab Systems, Inc.
www.wordlab.ca
"Beth Rosengard" <bethrosengard@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:BDA7CDDF.4166%bethrosengard@earthlink.net...
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for posting this.  I'll escalate it to MS and make sure it gets to
> the right place.
>
> -- 
> ***Please always reply to the newsgroup!***
>
> Beth Rosengard
> Mac MVP
>
> Mac Word FAQ:  <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/index.htm>
> Entourage Help Page:  <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>
>
>
>
> On 10/29/04 9:34 AM, in article xiugd.7$vH5.4@fe1.columbus.rr.com, "John
> Korchok" <jkorchok@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you develop in VBA for Macintosh OSX, don't depend on the
> > Options.DefaultFilePath command to find Office folders. OSX is now a
> > case-dependent operating system, but Options.DefaultFilePath returns
only
> > lower-case versions of the paths. This didn't matter with earlier Mac
OSs
> > and still doesn't matter with Windows.
> >
> > We worked around this by using a search for the Normal template to find
the
> > Templates folder.
> >
> > Attempting to report this to Microsoft got us only a request for $245
for
> > Advanced Support. Thanks Bill!
>

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