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In message <ylUom2l7wpz7EwYO@ejewell.free.fr>, E. J. Jewell 
<NewsFrom@chy-an-piran.demon.co.uk> writes

>I have a file C:\My Documents\nps\novcat01.doc
>
>If I fire up MS Word and then open the document, it opens OK.
>
>If I double click novcat01.doc in Windows Explorer, MS Word opens and I 
>get a message:
>
>"The document name or path is invalid.
>Try one of more of the following:
>* On the file menu click open to open the document.
>* Make sure the file has a .DOC extension.
>(C:MY.DOC)"
>
>When I OK this I get:
>
>"The document name or path is invalid.
>Try one or more of the following
>* Check the path name to make sure it was typed correctly.
>* On the file menu click Open. Search for the file using this dialogue 
>box.
>(DOCUMENTS\NPS\NOVCAT01.DOC)"
>
>Why is Windows Explorer breaking the path at the space in "My 
>Documents"?  Any fix for this?

Probably an error in the Windows file association for files with a "doc" 
extension. Missing quotes are often the cause of a file path with a 
space breaking. Here I have the Open command using DDE with quotes 
around the FileOpen command, thus:

[REM _DDE_Direct][FileOpen("%1")]

Having said that, this is not really the best newsgroup in which to ask 
questions of this sort: demon.ip.support.* means questions about 
connecting to Demon Internet (in the case of this particular newsgroup, 
connecting to Demon with Win95) rather than more general Windows 
questions.

-- 
Paul Terry

"E. J. Jewell" <NewsFrom@chy-an-piran.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I have a file C:\My Documents\nps\novcat01.doc
>
>If I fire up MS Word and then open the document, it opens OK.
>
>If I double click novcat01.doc in Windows Explorer, MS Word opens and I 
>get a message:
>
>"The document name or path is invalid.
>Try one of more of the following:
>* On the file menu click open to open the document.
>* Make sure the file has a .DOC extension.
>(C:MY.DOC)"
>
>When I OK this I get:
>
>"The document name or path is invalid.
>Try one or more of the following
>* Check the path name to make sure it was typed correctly.
>* On the file menu click Open. Search for the file using this dialogue 
>box.
>(DOCUMENTS\NPS\NOVCAT01.DOC)"
>
>Why is Windows Explorer breaking the path at the space in "My 
>Documents"?  Any fix for this?

Something has upset the default asociations for the .doc file type and
forgotten to use quotes round the %1 parameter.

This is often caused by an installation that updates dde etc settings
afair.

Try editing the doc filetype in the windows explorer filetypes menu
and putting double quotes round the %1 in the command for open.

Or, re-install microsoft word / office.

Rgds
Denis
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In message <soo8ttg35g5b1e0kfojl2lf31g32n9idja@4ax.com>, Denis Mcmahon 
<denisf@pickaxe.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>Something has upset the default asociations for the .doc file type and
>forgotten to use quotes round the %1 parameter.
>
The "something" is almost certainly me. ;-)  Your mention of quotes 
below I think is the clue I need.  Until recently the association was 
pointing to wordpad.  I changed the association because I wanted the 
documents to open in winword.  Clearly I must have a mess of changing 
the association.
>This is often caused by an installation that updates dde etc settings
>afair.
>
>Try editing the doc filetype in the windows explorer filetypes menu
>and putting double quotes round the %1 in the command for open.
>
I'll do that.  Fingers crossed that it will work.

Later:

Yes, that's fixed it.  I had just given the path to winword without the 
"%1".  Many thanks for giving me the vital clue.

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