You receive a "The file <filename> is not available" when you save a document in Word 2000 (224015)

SYMPTOMS

When you try to save a document, the following error message appears:

The file <filename> is not available.

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://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

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

RESOLUTION

The place where you are trying to save your file is not available.

If the place where you are trying to save your file is unavailable, save the file to a different location.

You are trying to save a file with an invalid character in the file name.

Some characters have special purposes and aren't valid within file names.

Examples of these characters are:

< (less-than sign)
> (greater-than sign)
| (pipe)
/ (forward slash)
\ (backward slash)
: (colon)

If you have tried to use an unusual character in the file name, remove it from the file name.