MS Office File Name Length Limitation

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Lewis Erskine

Does anyone have information on when MS will fix the file name length
limitation in MS Office X? The problem is most troublesome for me in
regard to sending and receiving attachments because Entourage
dutifully truncates the file names. Any recommendations for
workarounds ? Currently I use another mail client to send files with long
names. But that is still a pain and does not take care of receiving files
with long file names.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Does anyone have information on when MS will fix the file name length
limitation in MS Office X? The problem is most troublesome for me in
regard to sending and receiving attachments because Entourage
dutifully truncates the file names. Any recommendations for
workarounds ? Currently I use another mail client to send files with long
names. But that is still a pain and does not take care of receiving files
with long file names.
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We have been told several times that it is a major structural issue within
Office. Therefore, it's a pretty good guess that this will not come in a
minor "dot" update (such as 10.1.5) but rather in a major upgrade release
(whatever they call the next version after Office v. X). I would think it's
a pretty safe guess that they'd want to get this fixed in the _next_ major
upgrade release. There has been no announcement as to when that might be
due, but there have been some rumors that such an announcement might come
during MacWorld SF beginning less than two weeks from now. So maybe you'll
know more then.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
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