OFF95: Pipe Character Displays in Properties Dialog Title Box

ID: Q130846

The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Office for Windows 95, version 7.0
  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95, version 7.0

SYMPTOMS

When you view the Title of a Microsoft PowerPoint slide or a Microsoft Word document in the Properties dialog box in the application or in the Explorer, the title may contain a pipe character (|).


CAUSE

This behavior occurs if you enter a tab character in the first text object on your Microsoft PowerPoint slide, or in the first paragraph of your Word document. This behavior occurs because by default, the title of a new slide in Microsoft PowerPoint is the first 264 characters in the first text object on the slide. By default, the title of a new document in Word is the first 256 characters in the first paragraph in your document. If these first characters contain a tab character, the default title for the document contains the pipe character because the tab character is translated to the pipe character in the Title box.

For example, if the first paragraph in your Word document is

Office<tab><tab>95
where <tab> represents a tab character, the Title box on the Summary tab in the Properties dialog box for this document contains the following value:
Office||95
Note that you cannot enter a tab character directly in the Title box, because the TAB key is reserved for selecting different controls in a dialog box. However, if you copy text that contains the tab character and paste the text to the Title box, or another box in the Properties dialog box, the tab character is displayed as a pipe character.


RESOLUTION

To work around this behavior, you can delete the pipe character in the document title, or you can replace this character with a space or another character. To edit the Title field in the Properties dialog box, do the following:

  1. On the File menu, click Properties.


  2. Click the Summary tab.


  3. In the Title box, enter the title that you want for the document, and click OK.



STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words:

Keywords : offwin
Version : WINDOWS:7.0; Win95:7.0
Platform : Win95 WINDOWS
Issue type :


Last Reviewed: December 21, 1999
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