You are going to create a different but related problem if you use e-mail.
If you transfer documents by e-mail ensure they are zipped of security
systems can reject them and they can be corrupted in transit. Save the
document from the e-mail message to the hard drive and work on it there.
Never try and open it directly from the e-mail.
There is nothing wrong with using floppies to transfer documents between
users. It is the opening them and saving them to the floppy FROM WORD that
is the problem. ALWAYS copy the files to and from the floppy to the hard
drive and work on them there.
--
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Jeanne wrote:
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.
--
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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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