using underscores in file names instead of spaces

[Jason]

Hello folks,

We are building several new models in excel for financial
and management reporting. There are several excel files
that are linking to other excel files maybe 3, or 4
folders deep in a directory structure. Please note that
these files may eventually be posted to the web.

My question. Is there any advantage to using underscores
instead of spaces in folder names, file names, and tab
names within the workbook? Windows does not seem to
require them and spaces work fine and spaces also look
better and make it easier to read. Will spaces create
any problems with external file references?

Thanks in advance.

Jason

 

[Bob Phillips]

Jason,

I haven't had this problem for many years, not since I started using IIS,
but in some early versions of Netscape Web Server, it threw up on spaces.
Underscores were one solution, just removing the spaces was another.
Nowadays, I find that web servers throw a %20 in the filename, not a
problem, but make it hard to read if in a URL say.

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HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

 

[kkknie]

Spaces sometimes lead to having to put double quotes around the name t
get some programs to recognize them. Most of this has been fixed wit
newer versions of windows, but I try to use underscores whereve
possible. I have had some applications that required contiguou
filenames.

Just my opinion.