Long File Names in Office.X

[Rowland Fellows]

My OS X system supports long file names just fine, but when I open these
files in Office they get truncated to something with a code at the end, such
as #4587. I researched this and there is logic to the code (according to
Microsoft), but it is a real pain when I am sharing files with Windows users
and their systems support these long file names and mine doesn¹t. Any ideas
on how to work around this?

 

[Walt Basil]

You could always rename the document in the Finder to whatever you would
like and without limitations. Your Windows friends would view it without any
problem, and you could too in the Finder. Once you open it, the filename
gets the encoded trunk, but the name doesn't change, except to the open
window it is in. Once you save it and look at it in the Finder again, it is
still there as you named it.

Walt
http://www.basilweb.net
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Email me at walt at basilweb dot net

Current setup:
Palm m515,
Apple iBook 700 Combo
640 Megs RAM, Mac OS X 10.3.2
MS Office:mac v.X SR1 10.1.5