That's something different. When you type % signs both before and after a
word -- but only in certain places such as the address bar of Windows
Explorer and certain places in a command window -- then Windows tries to
look up that word in the list of environment variables. If the word is the
name of an existing variable, the expression is replaced by the value of the
variable.
You can see the list of variables by opening a command window, typing SET,
and pressing Enter.
The one I had mentioned before is %appdata%, whose value is the path to a
hidden folder. On Windows XP it points to C:\Documents and Settings\profile
name\Application Data, and in Windows Vista it points to C:\Users\profile
name\AppData\Roaming. So it's convenient in two ways: it takes you to the
folder even though it's hidden, and you don't have to know the profile name
or remember the different forms of the path on different Windows versions.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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grammatim wrote:
When I was having my templates problem, Jay gave some filepaths that
included % as fences around parts of the string, and the abbreviated
string took me right to both of the (hidden?) folders containing
templates (the Templates folder and the Word Startup folder). So %
also performs some sort of abbreviating and guiding function.
On Nov 4, 2:36 pm, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" 75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com wrote:
Hi Shirlene,
For Word's web compatibility features Word documents, when saved to
the root folder, example A:\ , are saved by Word with a replacement
for each space in the file name with %20
which is the encoding for a 'space' character. Other punctuation
characters may also be replaced with % leader entity characters.
You don't normally see this on your hard drive because you're saving
in a non root folder such as C:\My Documents\
If you create a folder on your diskette (however see Graham's
message) and save there you should no longer see the replacement of
space characters.
If you do choose to work with removable media when using Word be
sure that
1. You have the removable media in place when you start Word and
don't change diskettes, thumbdrives, chips, etc while Word is open.
2. That in Tools=Options=Save
you permanently
(a) Turn Off - Allow Fast Saves
(b) Turn On - 'Make local copy...'
3. In Tools=Options=General
you permanently Turn On
'Confirm Conversions at Open'
To somewhat reduce the risks of lost data and work
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"Shirlene" wrote in
...
When we save a file to a diskette, how can you avoid seeing % in the
file
name? I'm using Word 2003.