


The total length of both the path and the file name, including the file name extension, exceeds 255 characters. You also receive the error messages that are described in the "Symptoms" section of this article when you save or open a file that meets the following situations: Move the file to a folder with a shorter path name.Rename one or more folders that contain the file so that they have shorter names.Rename the file so that it has a shorter name.To do this, use one of the following methods: To resolve this behavior, make sure that the path of the file contains less than 256 characters. This behavior occurs because the 2007 Office suites, Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office XP have a character limitation of 256 characters for folder names. Check the spelling of the filename, and verify that the file location is correct. Enter a shorter path.įile Name could not be found. When you open specific files that are in folders that have long folder names in Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, and Microsoft Outlook 2002, you receive one of the following error messages: If you are trying to open the file from your list of most recently used files on the File menu, make sure that the file has not been renamed, moved, or deleted. Check the spelling of the file name, and verify that the file location is correct. When you open specific files in Microsoft Office Excel 2007, you receive the following error message if the files are in folders that have long names: '.' could not be found. For a Microsoft Office 2000 version of this article, see 325573.
