Title of Word Documents

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F. Hutterer

Saving articles from Newspapers, scientific articles into "My Documents"
requires the rewriting the TITLES, if the original has special characters
that is usually the case. Incredible and unnecessary wasting of time! Why is
this necessary?

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Charles Kenyon

Because Windows (formerly DOS) does not allow certain characters as names,
Word truncates its guess at what you want for a title when it runs into the
first character which was not allowed in DOS. Legacy, I guess. (This entire
response is a guess.) There are still a number of characters which cannot be
used in file names.

Realistically, Word probably could come up with a guess that excludes the
illegal characters rather than truncates at them, but how hard is it to type
in a document name? There are bigger things that still need fixing I
suspect.
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F. Hutterer

How hard is to type in a document's name? One document's name, not hard at
all. 700 might take some time, 2,700 anawful waste of lots of time.
 
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