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.
--
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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"Jeanne" wrote in message
...
I have Windows XP, Word 2002. I have an outside transcriptionist who puts
her
work on a floppy disc. I open the disc, save to Word, then close the
floppy
file and the Word file I have put it in. The light goes out, I remove the
disc. When I hit open (in Word) the light for the disc drive goes on, the
machine freezes and I cannot get out of it. I have tried Ctrl Alt Delete,
I
send error reports, but I cannot download, or have not tried to download
the
solution, because the screen is frozen. I get the end program screen but
the
light remains on and I have to shut the computer down by pushing the off
button on the CPU unit. This has happened twice. Is there something I am
doing wrong, is it the floppy, or just a Word/Windows quirk?
Thank you for any help.
Jeanne