& in attachment filenames

=?Utf-8?B?Tmlja1A=?=

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19th Feb 2007

Hi, Anybody got any idea why MS Outlook removes the & from the filenames of
attachments before it opens them? (I've only check MS word and Excel
documents so far)

i.e. New_&_old.xls

becomes

New__old.xls

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