A question for users of Office 2004

[Walt Basil]

The question that is so obvious, yet not one of all the people who are
posting here who are already using Office 2004 has cleared this up:

Can we have real long file names in 2004 through the save dialog?

Walt Basil
http://www.basilweb.net

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

The question that is so obvious, yet not one of all the people who are
posting here who are already using Office 2004 has cleared this up:

Can we have real long file names in 2004 through the save dialog?

Yes.

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[William Smith]

The question that is so obvious, yet not one of all the people who are
posting here who are already using Office 2004 has cleared this up:

Can we have real long file names in 2004 through the save dialog?

Walt Basil
http://www.basilweb.net

Yes. Up to 255 characters. Same as Windows.

bill

 

[KillBill]

The answer is YES!!!

The question that is so obvious, yet not one of all the people who are
posting here who are already using Office 2004 has cleared this up:

Can we have real long file names in 2004 through the save dialog?

Walt Basil
http://www.basilweb.net

 

[Walt Basil]

Yes.

Sweet!!

Thanks Paul (and the rest who answered...)

Walt Basil
http://www.basilweb.net

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Yes. Up to 255 characters. Same as Windows.

bill

Is it the same as windows? I thought that windows was limited to 255
characters in the entire filepath whereas Mac could now have 255 characters
in any single file/folder name.

 

[William Smith]

Is it the same as windows? I thought that windows was limited to 255
characters in the entire filepath whereas Mac could now have 255 characters
in any single file/folder name.

According to Microsoft's site the path can be up to 260 characters and
the file name length itself can be either 255 or 256 depending on which
article you read.

This is interesting. I just read that for the Mac it's actually the file
system that creates a limit on the path length. Even Mac OS 9 on an HFS+
system could have supported a file name up to 255 characters but no
programs (not even the Finder) allowed for a name longer than 31
characters.

bill

 

[Barry Wainwright]

According to Microsoft's site the path can be up to 260 characters and
the file name length itself can be either 255 or 256 depending on which
article you read.

That sounds like what I thought - those two statements are not mutually
exclusive.

This is interesting. I just read that for the Mac it's actually the file
system that creates a limit on the path length. Even Mac OS 9 on an HFS+
system could have supported a file name up to 255 characters but no
programs (not even the Finder) allowed for a name longer than 31
characters.

That certainly used to be the case - file name length was limited by the
'open/save' routines called by programmes. HFS+ did indeed build this
capability into the file system, but it took a while before all programmes
could take advantage of it.