Export file name for Excel

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Samantha - 20 Aug 2005 01:14 GMT

Is it possible to have characters such as / (slash) or . (period) in the name
of the file? Currently it's giving me an error everytime I name the Excel
file to export into with either of this. For example I can not name the file
08.19.05data.xls
thanks in advance.

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Ken Snell [MVP] - 20 Aug 2005 01:57 GMT

Through Windows, you can name a file with . characters. However, I've found
that ACCESS chokes on names with . characters in them when doing importing
and exporting. Use a - or _ instead.

/ is not a valid character in a filename period.

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Ken Snell
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> Is it possible to have characters such as / (slash) or . (period) in the
> name
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> 08.19.05data.xls
> thanks in advance.

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