Microsoft KB Archive/26744

Word: Filename Starting with a Hyphen Not Shown on Menu PSS ID Number: Q26744 Article last modified on 03-04-1993 PSS database name: M_WorD

3.00 3.01 3.02

MACINTOSH

Summary:

In versions 3.x of Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, if you begin a filename with a hyphen (for example, “-filename”), it does not show up on the Window menu. Instead a dotted line appears.

To invoke the file that is named with a hyphen for the first character, select the dotted line. If you want the name to display on the Window menu, remove the hyphen from the name.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word versions 3.0, 3.01, and 3.02. This problem was corrected in Word version 4.0.

Additional reference words: 3.00 3.01 3.02 4.00

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.