This is usually a bogus message. IIRC, one of the causes is the Office
Plug-in in Norton AntiVirus.

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"BazHobart" wrote in message
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A recently saved Word doc (and copied and renamed) file is not now
rexcognised by Word comes up with message that filename or path is
invalid -
when in fact it is not?