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Old July 20th 07, 10:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Tom Willett
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Default punctuation in attachment file names

The comma is an illegal character in Windows files. The following cannot be
used:

? [ ] / \ = + : ; " ,


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| I've noticed that when people in my office exchange e-mail with
| attachments that have punctuation in the file name, the punctuation
| frequently gets removed from the file name - such as with an
| attachment named "Firstname, Lastname.doc" somewhere along the way,
| the comma gets deleted.
|
| This is a problem because people end-up with 2 versions of the file -
| one with comma and one without.
|
| Does anyone know how this happens or what the rules are for
| permissible punctuation marks?
|


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