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SharePoint Q & A: What Characters are illegal in SharePoint?

What Characters are illegal in SharePoint?

This information has been extracted from wwwdemo.com (a great resource, by Ian Morrish). I've provided it here, because often I need it quick.

Characters that can't or shouldn't be used in File, folder and site names.

~ # % & * { } \ : < > ? / + | " . _

Notes:

- Period can't be used consecutively in the middle of a name or at the end

- Underscore shouldn't be used at the start of any name

- Spaces are encoded as %20 (3 sharacters) and count to the 240 character Web-DAV file length limit