Microsoft KB Archive/118583

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Word for Windows NT: Supported Characters in Filenames

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Q118583

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0

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SUMMARY
Characters for filenames of documents saved in or opened from Word 6.0 for Windows NT must exist in both the Windows ANSI character set and the OEM character set to be valid. The U.S. version of Windows NT uses the IBM Extended character set (code page 437) as the OEM character set.

MORE INFORMATION
Characters that are supported:

 All ASCII alphabetic characters (both uppercase and lowercase) All ASCII numeric characters Spaces  All of the following ASCII punctuation characters:      ! # $ % & ' +, - . ; = @ [ ] _ ^ ` { } ~  The following characters with grave accent: a e i o u The following characters with acute accent: E a e i o u The following characters with circumflex: a e i o u The following characters with tilde: N n</li> The following characters with diaeresis: A O U a e i o u y</li>  All of the following extended characters: <pre class="FIXEDTEXT">     Character Description         ANSI Code   CP437 Code -        -   --

Lowercase script letter F       131         159 Inverted exclamation mark       161         173 Cent sign                       162         155 Pound sign (pound sterling)     163         156 Yen sign                        165         157 Feminine ordinal indicator      170         166 Left pointing guillemet         171         174 Not sign                        172         170 Degree sign                     176         248 Plus-or-minus sign              177         241 Superscript 2                   178         253 Micro sign                      181         230 Middle dot                      183         250 Masculine ordinal indicator     186         167 Right pointing guillemet        187         175 One-quarter fraction            188         172 One-half fraction               189         171 Inverted Question mark          191         168 Uppercase letter A ring         197         143 Uppercase letter AE             198         146 Uppercase letter C cedilla      199         128 Lowercase sharp S (ess-zed)     223         225 Lowercase letter A ring         229         134 Lowercase letter ae             230         145 Lowercase letter c cedilla      231         135 Division sign                   247         246 </li></ul>

The characters from Windows ANSI character set that are not supported:

<pre class="FIXEDTEXT">     Character Description            ANSI Code -           -      Quotation mark (")                   34      Asterisk (*)                         42      Slash (/)                            47      Colon                             58      Less than sign (<)                   60      Greater than sign (>)                62      Question mark (?)                    63      Backslash (\)                        92      Vertical bar (pipe) (|)             124      Low single comma quotation mark     130      Low double comma quotation mark     132      Horizontal ellipsis (...)           133      Dagger                              134      Double dagger                       135      Spacing circumflex                  136      Per mille sign                      137      Uppercase S hacek                   138      Left pointing guillemet             139      Uppercase OE                        140      Single turned comma quotation mark  145 Single comma quotation mark        146 Double turned comma quotation mark 147 Double comma quotation mark        148 Bullet                             149 En dash                            150 Em dash                            151 Raised tilde                       152 Trademark                          153 Lowercase S hacek                  154 Right pointing quillemet           155 Lowercase OE                       156 Uppercase Y diaeresis              159 Currency sign                      164 Broken vertical bar                166 Section sign                       167 Spacing diaeresis                  168 Copyright sign                     169 Soft hyphen                        173 Registered trademark sign          174 Spacing Macron (overline)          175 Superscript 3                      179 Spacing acute                      180 Paragraph sign                     182 Spacing cedilla                    184 Superscript 1                      185 Three quarters fraction            190 Uppercase A grave                  192 Uppercase A acute                  193 Uppercase A circumflex             194 Uppercase A tilde                  195 Uppercase E grave                  200 Uppercase E circumflex             202 Uppercase E diaeresis              203 Uppercase I grave                  204 Uppercase I acute                  205 Uppercase I circumflex             206 Uppercase I diaeresis              207 Uppercase Eth                      208 Uppercase O grave                  210 Uppercase O acute                  211 Uppercase O circumflex             212 Uppercase O tilde                  213 Multiplication sign                215 Uppercase O slash                  216 Uppercase U grave                  217 Uppercase U acute                  218 Uppercase U circumflex             219 Uppercase U diaeresis              220 Uppercase Y grave                  221 Uppercase Thorn                    222 Lowercase A tilde                  227 Lowercase Eth                      240 Lowercase O tilde                  245 Lowercase O slash                  248 Lowercase Y acute                  253 Lowercase Thorn                    254 The characters from the IBM Extended character set that are not supported:

<pre class="FIXEDTEXT">     Character Description            CP437 Code -           --      Quotation mark (")                   34      Asterisk (*)                         42      Slash (/)                            47      Colon                             58      Less than sign (<)                   60      Greater than sign (>)                62      Question mark (?)                    63      Backslash (\)                        92      Vertical bar (pipe) (|)             124      All linedraw and shading         176 - 223        characters      Peseta sign                         158      Not sign                            170      Greek lowercase alpha               224      Greek uppercase gamma               226      Greek lowercase pi                  227      Greek uppercase sigma               228      Greek lowercase sigma               229      Greek lowercase tau                 231      Greek uppercase phi                 232      Greek uppercase theta               233 Greek uppercase omega              234 Greek lowercase delta              235 Infinity                           236 Empty Set (diameter symbol)        237 Lowercase epsilon (Latin)          238 Intersection (cap)                 239 Identical to                       240 Greater than or equal to           242 Less than or equal to              243 Top half integral                  244 Bottom half integral               245 Almost equal to                    247 Square root                        251 Superscript lowercase N            252 Black square                       254 White square (quadrature)          255