OFF2000: Special Characters That Can Cause Problems in Web Pages

• Microsoft Office 2000

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Office, you can use a variety of special characters when creating or saving files. Microsoft Windows also allows you to use special characters for naming files or folders. However, some of these special characters hold special meaning in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), JScript, or VBScript, and can cause various problems when used with documents intended for the World Wide Web.

MORE INFORMATION

When naming files or folders that you intend to use with HTML, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), or other Internet-related activities, avoid the following characters:

• Spaces



• Quotation marks: "



• Apostrophes: '



• Number signs: #



• Percent signs: %



• "Greater than" symbols: >



• "Less than" symbols: <

REFERENCES

For more information about the specific problems that some of these characters can cause, please click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q202261 OFF2000: Cannot Use Pound Character in File Name for a Hyperlink

Q224109 OFF2000: Error Message "Cannot open specified file."

Q226779 PPT2000: PowerPoint Hyperlinks Cannot Contain a Pound Sign (#)

Q237864 PPT2000: Cannot Connect to Third-Party NetShow Provider when Scheduling Broadcast

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Keywords : kbdta kbweb kbhtml
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo