Allow Delimiters in Save As?

[Deke]

1. I search the Internet and copy/paste the info I want into a new Word2007
doc. The 1st line of the pasted text is (as an example): Tom & Jerry's
Comics.

2. When I do a Save As, Word 'suggests' the File Name as: "Tom.docx." Word,
therefore, truncates all chars. beyond the '&' (and other delimiters such as
'%', "@', etc.)

3. However, I have discovered that I can copy the 1st line of text and then
explicitly paste into the Save As FileName entry box and Word accepts the '&'
delimiter as a legitimate filename.

The 1st line of each of my docs will be different but what will be constant
is that a delimiter will LIKELY be somewhere in that string of characters.

I do this "search/copy/new Word doc" sequence often and am looking for how
to eliminate step 3 from this process. I just want to do a Save.

Where/how can I modify Word's "suggested" File Name as it stops when it sees
the 1st delimiter?

Thanks for any suggested.

 

[Tony Jollans]

I'm afraid you can't do it. Word determines the default saveAs name using
its own logic and it is not limited to finding a legal name.

If you want to have a suggestion other than the one Word is prepared to
offer you, you will need to use a VBA routine. A macro called FileSaveAs
will intercept the SaveAs command and, in it, you can do as you will.