No. When Word is open, the floppy is not in the drive!
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"Jeanne" wrote in message
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That is what I was trying to do, they are saved on a floppy by someone
else,
I save the document to Word and then edit and save again to each patient's
folder. But, after I have saved the whole document to Word and take out
the
floppy the computer freezes. At any rate I just spoke to the
transcriptionist, since the same problem has happened to her, we will
switch
to e-mail.

Again, thanks for your help.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

You can save them on a floppy, just not from within Word! When Word is
open,
work with the floppy out of the drive.
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Charles Kenyon

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"Jeanne" wrote in message
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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.
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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

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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