Future-Proof Filenames
/Microsoft Windows tolerates the use of various crazy punctuation characters in filenames of documents, spreadsheets, folders, etc. But you would be wise to future-proof your filenames by avoiding characters that are "illegal" in many cloud services.
The following characters should not be used in filenames:
Tilde (~)
Number sign (#)
Percent (%)
Ampersand (&)
Asterisk (*)
Braces ({ })
Backslash (\)
Colon (:)
Angle brackets (< >)
Question mark (?)
Slash (/)
Pipe (|)
Quotation mark (")
So that leaves you with a few punctuation characters that you can use:
Hyphen (-) Underscore (_)
There are a few more that may be legal but you would still be wise to avoid:
Period (.) At sign (@) Exclamation Point (!) Caret (^) Plus (+) Comma (,) Semicolon (;) Square Brackets ([])
