How to stop Excel storing the absolute path to an XLA?

Question

I have an XLA file that is to be deployed to a number of users in the organisation as an Excel add-in. My intention is to deploy it to a directory in the user\'s \"documents and

Answer 1

I simply remove the path with a sub like this one:

Sub RemoveXlaPath()
'
' Goal: delete the path reference to the add-in, i.e. everything before and including the '!'
' ='C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\LIBRARY\populator.xlam'!famedata(...)
'
    Cells.Replace What:="'C:\*xla*'!", Replacement:="", _
                    LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, _
                    SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
End Sub