Thanks for your help, unfortunately, there are several separate pages in each
document (doctor's notes) and they all need to be edited by me. This is
supposed to be making my job easier! I will try the e-mail route.
Jeanne
"Charles Kenyon" wrote:
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
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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