[aalaan]

Yes, well I did that too... Must have done something right. One of my pupils
is now a headmaster...

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"oe" wrote in message
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When I went to college to learn word processing many years ago, we were
TAUGHT to save to floppy. When I took another course a couple of years
ago, they were still teaching it - no wonder people go wrong!

"aalaan" wrote in message
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And to chuck in my two pennorth. One exclamation mark is all you need on
each occasion.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The error message was not telling you the document was not formatted.
It was
telling you the disk was not formatted. This is a generic (and in this
case
bogus) error message but a strong suggestion that the file you were
trying
to open has become corrupted (if you did format the disk, you would
certainly lose your data, but it is probably lost already). Saving a
Word
document directly to a floppy or other removable drive or opening one
directly from such is one of the surest ways to corrupt the file.
Always
save your documents to the hard drive, then copy to the floppy; to
open,
copy from the floppy back to the HD and open from there.

For now, copy the document to the HD (if you can), then try to open it.
If
you can't, and have Word 2003, use the Open and Repair option (click
the
arrow beside Open in the File Open dialog). If that doesn't help, or if
that
option is not available, select "Recover Text from Any File" as the
file
type in the Open dialog.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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USING WORD; NEED ASSISTANCE; "PLEASE......" USING WORD, NEED
wrote in message
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I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM
TO
MY
FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE
SCREEN
TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT??
WHAT I
WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO
START
OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS...