If you have read this thread, you should understand that the floppy discs
that you cannot read are corrupt. This is what happens when you save Word
files to them. Don't do it!!!

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Denise wrote:
I have the same problem with all my diskettes to. I cannot help you
here. I've tried the solutions and help you receive but nothing
doing. Beside it wants to reformat my diskettes. Sorry but at the
time way back, I didn't have any CD Drivers and didn't know what it
could have been, until my daughters showed them to me and now, i have
2 CDRW but that doesnt help my diskettes to open and read them either.
Denise Lajoie

"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

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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