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Charles Kenyon
 
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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

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"daveboylan" wrote in message
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If anyone can help with this I would be very grateful. When I
right-click an icon on desktop (ms word / notepad item) and 'send to'
... the option to send it to CD Drive isnt an option! .... options are
to floppy,desktop shortcut, zipped...etc ........I'm usually able to
save my stuff to disk but cant now.

Please reply or e-mail me at

Thanks

Dave


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daveboylan