Have cell reference as Naming convention

stroffso

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I need to change how some code looks up a certain directory, previously I had it static where it was just a set folder. However now I want to make it a cell reference on a workbook im just not sure how to do so. Below is what I have, I would like it so its refering to cell A2 on a tab called Renaming, code to change in red below

This is the line of code I need to change which works fine.
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("D:\Users\d12\Desktop\John\Data Files - Test")

This is the entire piece of code
Sub Listfilenames()
Dim objFSO As Object
Dim objFolder As Object
Dim objFile As Object
Dim i As Integer


'Create an instance of the FileSystemObject
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Get the folder object
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("D:\Users\d12\Desktop\John\Data Files - Test")
i = 1
'loops through each file in the directory and prints their names and path
For Each objFile In objFolder.Files
'print file name
Cells(i + 1, 1) = objFile.Name
'print file path
'Cells(i + 1, 2) = objFile.Path
i = i + 1
Next objFile
End Sub
 

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For the current code example,
Rich (BB code):
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("D:\Users\d12\Desktop\John\Data Files - Test")



what exactly would be in cell A2?
 
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A folder directory that the user could change when they needed to. Its so they can change from month to month without having to change the code each time.

So this month it would be
D:\Users\d12\Desktop\John\Data Files\July 2019
Where as next month it would be
D:\Users\d12\Desktop\John\Data Files\August 2019
 
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A folder directory that the user could change when they needed to. Its so they can change from month to month without having to change the code each time.

So this month it would be
D:\Users\d12\Desktop\John\Data Files\July 2019
Where as next month it would be
D:\Users\d12\Desktop\John\Data Files\August 2019
Assuming that's the full path to the folder:

Rich (BB code):
Dim fPath as String
fPath = Range("A2").Value
'your code
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(fPath)
'more code

 
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