OFF97: Hyperlinks Fail with Apostrophe in Folder Name

• Microsoft Office 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you click a hyperlink in a Web PageView, the following error message occurs:

   HTTP 404/1.0 Object Not Found

CAUSE

This problem will occur when you do the following:

• You have created a Web PageView using WebPage.htm included in the Office 97 Server Pack located in the SrvPack folder of your Office 97 CD-ROM.

  -and-

• You click a hyperlink whose folder contains an apostrophe character (') in the name.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Web PageViews can be created by installing the Server Pack located on the Microsoft Office 97 CD-Rom in the SrvPack folder. The Web PageView is part of the Microsoft Office Web Find Fast indexer. This indexer utility allows you to index multiple document locations on your Web server. You can combine all of these locations into one index, which makes searching for any file on your Web server as easy as clicking your browser. These results are then returned to the Web page that is generated by Microsoft Office Web Find Fast. The links that are returned function as either Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or universal naming convention (UNC) file references. You can customize all HTML pages to use the features of Office Web Find Fast, including sorting by relevance, file name, save date, and size. A PageView allows you to display the documents within the Web Find Fast index in a hierarchical list.