Microsoft KB Archive/224109

= OFF2000: Error Message "Cannot open specified file." =

Article ID: 224109

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224109





ERROR MESSAGE
When you click a hyperlink in a Microsoft Office document, the following error message appears:

Cannot open specified file.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.



Hyperlink Worksheet Function
If this error appears when you click a hyperlink that is created using the Excel Hyperlink worksheet function, refer to the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for steps to solve your problem.

211503 XL2000: "Cannot Open Specified File" Clicking Hyperlink

File Name Contains # Symbol
If this error appears when you click a hyperlink, and the target file name contains a pound sign (#), refer to the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for steps to solve your problem.

202261 You cannot use a pound character in a file name for a hyperlink in an Office program

Additional query words: OFF2000

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