• Common characters that cannot be used anywhere in a file name:
o Tilde (~)
o Number/Pound sign (#)
o Percent (%)
o Ampersand (&)
o Asterisk (*)
o Braces ({ })
o Parenthesis ( )
o Backslash (\)
o Colon (:)
o Angle brackets (< >)
o Question mark (?)
o Slash (/)
o Plus sign (+)
o Pipe (|)
o Quotation marks (“,’)
o Dollar sign ($)
o Exclamation point (!)
o At sign (@)
• Don’t use the period character consecutively in the middle of a file name.
• Don’t start or end your filename with a space, period, hyphen, or underline.