"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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In which case it is already corrupt reinforcing the advice never to
work
directly with a floppy disk (or any other removable media either).
Try the Recover Text from any File Option (in the File Open dialog)
and if
that fails, try opening the doc in WordPad.
--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP
"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open
one
directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive
and
open
it from there.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
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I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000
My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the
'Save
As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document.
It
was
saved in Times New Roman -Normal.
Everything was fine until today when the document would not open.
The Open page displays Doc.1
Jerusalem
and the Files of type shows: Word Documents.
When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want
to
revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose
it
does not open.
The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on
'My
Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated.
One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the
'Files
of type' have any extensions on them.
I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine.
Can you help please?
Regards,
Emrys Davies.
I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from
there.
Would you be more explicit here please: "Try the Recover Text from any
File Option (in the File Open dialog)" I think I know what you mean,
but would like to be sure that I doing the right thing. I could not open
the files in WordPad. I am learning fast, but I need quite basic
instructions as I am a bit out of my depth here at the moment.
Thanks a lot.
Emrys Davies.