Get path of an active file

[rokkyboy]

Hey guys,

Is there an easy way to get path of an active file, be it excel, word, or others?

or

is it difficult to achieve this as accessing path information varies from an application to application?

The workflow I'm trying to automate is follows:

1. I'm working on a file (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, PDF, etc)
2. I need to send this file to someone

Current workflow:

1. Save the file and close the application
2. use Everything to search for the file name
3. Drag and drop

Ideally, i was hoping to achieve

1. copy active file's path to clipboard & open an explorer at target path

from there I can either use Onedrive, Dropbox, outlook, etc to send the file.

Thanks in advance,

Rok

[BoBo]

Setting explorer to show the full path of a selected file (should work for other apps window as well), that way you can grep that path from there. Good luck

[Guest]

I don't think there is a "catch all" way of seeing all opened files, for Office application you can use COM, for other programs you may need to find specific methods (some programs show the entire file path in the program window, some just the file name) - here is one for Word:

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;Press F1 while MicroSoft Word is open.  
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
#IfWinExist, ahk_class OpusApp 
F1::
ActiveDocumentFile := ComObjActive("Word.Application").ActiveDocument.FullName
MsgBox % ActiveDocumentFile 
Return

Other methods:
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/9536 ... /?p=600943

Third party app (use command line mode, filter the resulting text file):
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/opened_files_view.html