Word should save doc names with hyphens, apostrophes etc in title

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Why on earth do we still have to avoid "special characters" when titling the
name of a Word document? No docs get saved if titled "Evan's List" ,
"Dial-Up Internet Numbers" or "Me & You" as examples. The apostrophe in the
first would have to go, making the doc "Evans List", the second one would
have to have the dash eliminated, and in the third one the ampersand would
have to be made literal by substituting it with "and".
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I have no difficulty saving documents with any or all of those characters.
What sort of system are you saving to?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Evan said:
Why on earth do we still have to avoid "special characters" when titling the
name of a Word document? No docs get saved if titled "Evan's List" ,
"Dial-Up Internet Numbers" or "Me & You" as examples. The apostrophe in the
first would have to go, making the doc "Evans List", the second one would
have to have the dash eliminated, and in the third one the ampersand would
have to be made literal by substituting it with "and".
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Evan

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This is a restriction imposed by Windows, *not* by Word - applications
programs *cannot* do what the OS won't allow. Special characters are used by
the OS for specific purposes & using those characters in file names would
create havoc with the file system.

Regards |:>)
 
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