Compressed Zip Folder, Msoft Word, characters to avoid?

[paulb203]

Strange. I've been deleting scores of apostrophes from the title of files in folders and now Word is letting me zip files with apostrophes in the title of the files. I zipped one that hadn't been edited by mistake, and was surprised to see that I could. Then I tried another. That worked too. And yet, prior to this I had got a message in a pop saying I couldn't zip a folder because it had apostrophes.
Also, I spent days on one particularly large folder, editing loads of file titles. When I'd finally got it done I went to zip it but kept getting the 'you can't...' pop-up message. I checked and double-checked all the titles and it was all fine. I eventually set up a new folder, moved all the folders and files to that, named it the same, deleted the orginal, and it let me zip it.
I guess Word is a bit like 'The Lord', in that it works in mysterious ways.

 

[rbelli1]

You keep mentioning that you are zipping files with Word. Word doesn't have a zip function. What exactly are you doing?

BoB

 

[paulb203]

You keep mentioning that you are zipping files with Word. Word doesn't have a zip function. What exactly are you doing?

BoB

Hi, BoB.
I go into File Explorer, right click on a folder, then click on 'Send to'. The second option on the drop-down menu is, 'Compressed (zipped) folder' which has a zipped folder icon next to it.
Once I click on that the folder is compressed/zipped. Which means I can now send it as an email attachment (rather than have to attach each file in the folder individually).

 

[rbelli1]

I figured out your problem. Windows compression doesn't allow Unicode characters so the apostrophe is ’ instead of ' in your file names.

If you use another (many other? any other?) compression program you won't have this problem. I use 7-zip. There are probably more user friendly ones out there.

BoB

 

[paulb203]

Thanks.
And sorry if I got your name wrong; I'm now thinking BoB is an abbreviation for something :)

 

[rbelli1]

Thanks.
And sorry if I got your name wrong; I'm now thinking BoB is an abbreviation for something :)

Nope. just BoB with two big 'B's. One is just not enough.

BoB