Part of the problem, I think, is that floppy technology is relatively
unchanged since the advent of double density disks, whereas hard drives,
processors, data transfers, and program resource demands have all changed
drastically. I sometimes use a 100 meg Zip disk. I have noticed the File
Copy dialog will disappear and the disk can be ejected long before the
actual data transfer is finished. Floppies don't have the stuff to keep up
with what's going on inside a modern computer.

Do not treat a floppy like a work surface, but rather like a carrying case.
Copy the file to a floppy, put it on another computer, and remove the
floppy. THEN start Word or whatever and work. Personally, though, CDs are
cheap enough to burn files to, have less chance of data corruption, and can
hold more. A whole lot cheaper than losing all your data to a bum floppy!

Ed

"Jeanne" wrote in message
...
It probably was since I had another disc this week that Word would not
open
because it may not have been formatted or it was done on a Mac. I don't
like
using discs anyway, I only had the disc drive added to this computer,
because
the computer "expert" who installed our computers before Y2K was no
expert,
and all of the computers had 1-3 hard drive fails, mine three times, which
is
why I kept some things backed up on floppies. We did have a back-up, which
he
installed incorrectly and we lost a lot of files after the third hard
drive
fail. Now we have new computers, this guy is history, and things are
better.

Thank you for your time.

Jeanne

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

It could be that the file is corrupt because it was saved in Word
straight
onto the floppy.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Jeanne" wrote in message
...
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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"Jeanne" wrote in message
...
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
...
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