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[Colleen]

If I open an existing document in a Office 2003 app (Excel or Work), and then
choose "Save As" & in the file name specify the file to be saved to a
diskette by adding "a:" in front of the file name, the file name is saved &
instead of a space between words it shows %20. This doesn't occur if in the
"Save In" window, I select the A drive.


Ex:I open "test letter.doc" in Word 2003, then select "Save As" and in the
file name field, I'd type "A:test letter.doc" and the file name will be
actually saved onto the disk as "test%20letter.doc".

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

The easiest thing is the most obvious - don't use a space in a file name.

 

[Colleen]

I realize that is the easiest work around but it's quite limiting in naming
files. Also, as I stated in my post, a work around is to select the A drive
from the "Save In" window...

I was hoping someone at Microsoft would instead point me to an update I
missed (even though their update tool says I have all the updates) or
someone at Microsoft would test the problem & report it as a bug.

The easiest thing is the most obvious - don't use a space in a file name.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

If I open an existing document in a Office 2003 app (Excel or Work), and
then
choose "Save As" & in the file name specify the file to be saved to a
diskette by adding "a:" in front of the file name, the file name is saved
&
instead of a space between words it shows %20. This doesn't occur if in
the
"Save In" window, I select the A drive.


Ex:I open "test letter.doc" in Word 2003, then select "Save As" and in the
file name field, I'd type "A:test letter.doc" and the file name will be
actually saved onto the disk as "test%20letter.doc".

 

[Bob I]

Problem solved long time ago as the "underscore" character has
historically been used as a "space".

I realize that is the easiest work around but it's quite limiting in naming
files. Also, as I stated in my post, a work around is to select the A drive
from the "Save In" window...

I was hoping someone at Microsoft would instead point me to an update I
missed (even though their update tool says I have all the updates) or
someone at Microsoft would test the problem & report it as a bug.

:

The easiest thing is the most obvious - don't use a space in a file name.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

If I open an existing document in a Office 2003 app (Excel or Work), and
then
choose "Save As" & in the file name specify the file to be saved to a
diskette by adding "a:" in front of the file name, the file name is saved
&
instead of a space between words it shows %20. This doesn't occur if in
the
"Save In" window, I select the A drive.


Ex:I open "test letter.doc" in Word 2003, then select "Save As" and in the
file name field, I'd type "A:test letter.doc" and the file name will be
actually saved onto the disk as "test%20letter.doc".

 

[Colleen]

Bob, thanks for the suggestion but it is still just a workaround and not a
solution. After long file names came into use, the prior Office & Microsoft
products did not work this way. It's silly in 2005 to go backwards in the way
of file naming.

If others are experiencing this, then Microsoft should add it to a list of
thing to fix in a future update.

Thanks again for the suggestion,
Colleen

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Colleen,

The %20 replacement for spaces is mainly for web browser
compatability using a W3C (http://w3c.org) HTML standard
character (not all browsers do well with spaces in links
to documents).

The change will occur when you preceed the file name
with any drive letter (not just a diskette) and will occur
even if you put the name of the file in quotes, which is
an instance where it probably shouldn't, if the name directly
follows a drive letter and a colon.

It's a feature designed to help users saving to
a MS Office Sharepoint library have hyperlink accessible
filenames.

There are two workarounds:
(A) The one you mentioned, navigate to the
save location to save the file.

(B) Include a folder name/level in your save. For example
to save to the root (base) of your A: drive type in

A:\test letter
rather than
A:test letter

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If I open an existing document in a Office 2003 app (Excel or Work), and then
choose "Save As" & in the file name specify the file to be saved to a
diskette by adding "a:" in front of the file name, the file name is saved &
instead of a space between words it shows %20. This doesn't occur if in the
"Save In" window, I select the A drive.


Ex:I open "test letter.doc" in Word 2003, then select "Save As" and in the
file name field, I'd type "A:test letter.doc" and the file name will be
actually saved onto the disk as "test%20letter.doc". >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob I]

Oh, I'm sorry to have overlooked the other part of the issue. NEVER,
NEVER, NEVER, work directly off of or to floppy disks in Office
applications. That is a booby trap just waiting to be sprung. If you
need a copy of the doc on the floppy, put it there using Windows
explorer, as Word will also put the tmp file there.

 

[Colleen]

Bob, thanks for the informative reply. Is there some function to turn off so
the Office apps don't think I saving the files on a system that uses MS
Office Sharepoint library? All of these files I am saving are existing Word
2000 or Excel 200 docs on my hard drive which I modify & then save to a
diskette.

Thanks again for your time,
Colleen

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Colleen,

There isn't a setting to change the behavior
but simply typing a backslash after your drive
letter (A:\filename rather than A:filename)
should keep the problem from happening.

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Bob, thanks for the informative reply. Is there some function to turn off so
the Office apps don't think I saving the files on a system that uses MS
Office Sharepoint library? All of these files I am saving are existing Word
2000 or Excel 200 docs on my hard drive which I modify & then save to a
diskette.

Thanks again for your time,
Colleen >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Colleen]

Bob, thanks again for your reply. Adding a "\" into my file names is easier &
quicker than having to go back & rename the file, so I guess I'll have to be
happy with that. It's still frustrating though to have to do so when it was
never required before in future versions..... Oh well.......

Thanks again,
Colleen