Anomalous Desktop Pathing

reberryjr

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Joined
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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
People in my company have different desktop pathing, and I'm struggling to account for them all. I tried using the underlying code, but it's failing for one person (so far):
VBA Code:
Sub pathtest()

Dim uDP As String
uDP = CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SpecialFolders("Desktop")

If Len(Dir(uDP & "\Test", vbDirectory)) = 0 Then
    MkDir uDP & "\Test"
End If

End Sub

His desktop path has a space after the username that isn't being picked up when I run the code above, or Environ("Username"). Is there a way to capture the User's desktop path in these scenarios?
 

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Maybe

VBA Code:
uDP=Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Desktop"
 
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