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Yesterday I wrote about a new bug in Word 2011 that causes it to fail to open a perfectly fine Word document with the following error message:

Jul 22, 2015 When saving a file for the first time, you may have noticed Word suggesting a file name to you in the “Save As” dialog box. This file name is typically taken from the first paragraph in your document. However, this is actually Word’s second choice for suggested file names.

At the time, I wrote:

I was able to open the same document just fine with both Word 2008 and Pages ’09. After some investigating, I was able to determine that the problem could be avoided by unchecking the option to include images when exporting as a Word file within Acrobat Pro.

Well, it turns out that I was wrong. Upon further investigation, I was able to determine that the problem probably has nothing to with the presence of images in the file, but with something else that I changed at the same time I changed the option to include the images when exporting the PDF file as a Word document in Acrobat Pro: I put it in a different location.

See, it turns out that, when Microsoft says “This is not a valid file name,” they mean “This is not a valid file path” and that, in Word 2011, the presence of any non-ASCII character (like an accented letter, the < or > characters, etc.) anywhere in the file path (and not just in the file name) will cause Word to fail to open the file.

It really is quite unbelievable that such a bug slipped through. Vizio tv remote app iphone. What kind of machines does Microsoft actually test its software on? Do they make any effort to replicate real-world situations where people make normal use of all kinds of perfectly valid characters in the names of their files and folders?

Obviously not.

So for now if you want to be able to open all your existing Word files with Word 2011, you have to make sure that they are in a location whose path does not contain any “special” characters like é, è, <, or >. (Oooh, they’re scary, those characters, aren’t they?)

Once again, Microsoft has utterly failed to properly test its software before releasing it and is inflicting its egregious bugs on hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. It’s always nice to be made to feel special after you’ve spent $150 (or more) of your hard-earned cash on a company’s products.

UPDATE: It’s even worse. A reader reports that you can no longer use slashes in file names in Word 2011, even though slashes are perfectly supported by Mac OS X. (The only invalid character I know of is the colon.) I can confirm that this is true on my system as well, and that slashes worked perfectly fine in file names in Word 2008. Grrr.

That error message usually tells the truth: usually the path name is 'not'
valid.

Show us the entire path name and document name and we'll be able to tell you
what is wrong with it.

Often, it means that either the path name is too long or contains
unacceptable characters. If you name your hard disk anything other than
'Mac HDD' be careful: you can end up with some applications unable to save
to it.

Letters, numbers, and spaces are fine: any other characters will cause
trouble somewhere, so get out of the habit of allowing them in file names.
Remember that while Windows and Apple file systems are agnostic about letter
case, Unix file systems are case-specific: 'AFile' and Afile' are two
different files.

'Too Long' is a very difficult quantity to define: officially there are no
limits on the Apple HFS+ file system. But in NTFS and Unix UFS, there are.
So if you're saving to a Windows file server, be aware that you begin to
stretch the friendship at 225 characters: NTFS has a limit of 226 characters
on any segment of a path (e.g. The file name plus extension, or a folder
name).

Theoretically, you can save a file name + path name + volume name of 32,767
Unicode characters (65,532 bytes) in NTFS, and of unlimited length in Mac
HFS+. In practice, various applications will sign off well before this,
around the 1,024-characters mark. So follow the rule that 'shorter is
better'.

If you have not applied updates, some applications will attempt to honour
the old Apple file name length of 30 characters. Word is one.

Cheers

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