File Name Length

[Robert]

What is the max length of a file name?

Also what is the max length of a Path?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is not a Word issue but a Windows issue, hence you need to ask it in a
Windows NG.

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[Anon]

What is the max length of a file name?
Also what is the max length of a Path?

I have repeatedly read, but do not know if it is true, that the
maximum length of an absolute path plus file name is 255 characters.
One way to get a little extra mileage is to use the DOS naming
convention, which causes "c:\documents and settings\bill\my documents
\" to become (in most systems) "c:\docume~1\bill\mydocu~1\"

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

My guess would have been 255 characters as well, but this really is a
Windows issue.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
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