"Save As" crops filename

[Scott]

Environment:
Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac Version 11.2 (060202)
Mac OS X Version 10.4.5

Issue:
When I save a document using the "Save As" menu command (usually to save
the file in a different directory) the part of the filename after the
last fullstop is deleted. This behaviour has been found on all the Macs in
our company.

eg. Filename = First Section.Second Section.Third Section.doc

The first time I choose Save As the name is changed to
First Section.Second Section.Third Section

The next time I choose Save As the name is changed to
First Section.Second Section

The next time I choose Save As the name is changed to
First Section

The equivalent version of Excel does not behave this way.

Has onyone found a fix for this problem?

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Environment:
Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac Version 11.2 (060202)
Mac OS X Version 10.4.5

Issue:
When I save a document using the "Save As" menu command (usually to save
the file in a different directory) the part of the filename after the
last fullstop is deleted. This behaviour has been found on all the Macs in
our company.

eg. Filename = First Section.Second Section.Third Section.doc

The first time I choose Save As the name is changed to
First Section.Second Section.Third Section

The next time I choose Save As the name is changed to
First Section.Second Section

The next time I choose Save As the name is changed to
First Section

The equivalent version of Excel does not behave this way.

Has onyone found a fix for this problem?

There's no problem. In the Save dialog, check the box at lower left that
says "Append file extension", and it will automatically add .doc . Let it do
so. Do NOT use full stops in the file names, so that Word does not think
that the segment following the last one is an extension. That's what periods
are used for in Mac OS X (and Unix, and Windows). Yes, Word is trying too
hard to be "helpful" here, but nevertheless you should not used full stops
in file names. Use First Section-Second Section-Third Section.doc instead,
and nothing will disappear.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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[Scott]

Heh! That's neat. It looks like a bug.

Looks like that to me too.

If you uncheck "append file extension" in the save dialog, it rips off
the .doc on the first suggested save-as, but then it decides not to
chew off any more after that. Which is a slight improvement.

Thanks. Didn't even think to check that.

There is nothing stopping you typing the missing lumps back into the
suggested filename before you save-as.

That's what I've been doing, (except when I forget...)

You might choose a file naming convention that uses fewer dots.

True, that would be a work around. I appreciate the significance of "." in
various filesystems, but it's the companies convention and changing it is not
trivial.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'm not sure what is more frustrating, the bug itself, or the fact that MS
doesn't mention it in their Knowledgebase.

Scott.