WD97: Run-Time Error Using Macro to Save File with Name
Article ID: 155985
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
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SYMPTOMS
When you run a macro that saves a file with a file name that uses a
character outside of the range 32-255, based on the Unicode standard, the
following Microsoft Visual Basic message appears:
Run-time error '5152
This is not a valid file name. Try one or more of the following:
*Check the path to make sure it was typed correctly.
*Select a file from the list of files and folders.
<path>\<file name>.
where <path> is a folder name and <file name> is a file name on the
computer.
CAUSE
This problem occurs because Microsoft Windows 95 is not aware of the
Unicode standard.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use characters from the standard American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) character set when naming files with a
macro.
MORE INFORMATION
The Unicode standard is a world-wide, 16-bit character encoding system. It
is a fixed-width, uniform text and character encoding scheme that includes
characters from the world's scripts, as well as technical symbols in common
use. It is maintained by the Unicode Consortium and corresponds with
international standard ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993.
One use for characters outside the range is to represent accented
characters in foreign languages.
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