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Charles Kenyon
 
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Default How do I save already saved document to FLOPPY DISK

Find the documents is Windows Explorer. Then insert your floppy disk and
open My Computer. Find the floppy on it, double click it to open it. Select
your document files and drag them to the floppy disk window. Windows will
copy them to the floppy. If there are too many to fit, Windows will copy
what will fit. Then put in another floppy and copy the ones that still need
to be copied.

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist! (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as
well.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on a floppy
Print a document on a floppy
Edit a document on a floppy
Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries, schools) this is a
tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new
formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"E" wrote in message
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I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks.
All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I
would like to save All my documents to floppy disks.
I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop