Ron Johnson wrote: > The question still is why the file names are different: > CH3CN+2.5%Fer.doc > CH3CN+2.5%25Fer.doc %25 generally refers to the character 0x25 (in hex), which happens to be the percent char %. Apparently, some applications are trying to encode/decode the name based on the %xx notation, and some are not. -- You fill a much-needed gap. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb