File Name Limit in Office X?
What the hell!?!?!? I try to save a file in MS Word OS/X version called “Content Management System Recommendations.doc” and it pops up a box telling me that “The file name you entered is too long: The file name cannot exceed 31 characters.” No limit like that on file folders, or files saved in textedit, or any other program I tested.
Huh? What year is this again? What sort of braindead program is this?????
Cross-Platform note: Using templates from Office for Windows in Office v.X
(it seems I’m not the only one having problems with Office v.X today!) In theory, you can drag a template…
Hasn’t windows taught you to make that name “content~1.doc”?
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or rather “conten~1.doc”
What a bizarre limitation in a world that has long-since gotten used to 255 character filenames. Lame.
They still are making older system calls, and relying on the old OS 9 limitations.
Stupid stupid stupid!! Does this exist in the Windoze version of Office? I’ll have to test and let you know. I just tried same thing on the Mac here and same error. If I try to save using the same file name in text editor, no problem. Silly M$
Substandard product! Windoze version has no problem saving long file names. Another example I guess of M$ putting out a substandard product on a different platform, kinda like IE for the Mac.
I believe this is a limit of the calls they are using, not the underlying file system.
MS Word for OS-X: Nostalgia edition
Hey,
Been having the same problem. Openoffice saves in long file name. The text looks a lot better than office mac. and it’s free! The bummer is that it runs in X11 which makes it look like a windows app, but they are working on an Aqua port.