WD2000: Err Msg: "The document name or path is not valid."

ID: Q224016

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

ERROR MESSAGE

When you open or save a document in Word, the following error message may appear:

The document name or path is not valid.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/alerts.htm

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.

CAUSE

You opened a Word 2000 frames document in an earlier version of Word.

You opened or saved a document management system (DMS) file in Word.

WHAT TO TRY

A Word 2000 frames document was opened in an earlier version of Word.

In a Word 2000 document, a frame page was added and then deleted before the document was saved. Even though the frame page was deleted from the Word document before the file was saved, the frame page was not actually removed but was saved as the active document with the file name you intended to give to the original Word 2000 document.

For additional information about this cause for this error message, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q210041 WD2000: ErrMsg. Opening Word 2000 Document in Earlier Version

You opened or saved a document management system (DMS) file in Word.

When you open or save a document management system (DMS) file in Word, the error message described earlier in this article may appear.

For additional information about this cause of this error message, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q166865 WD97: 'Invalid Document ID' Opening/Saving Document

Additional query words: OFF2000


Keywords          : kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo