If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in 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) 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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"FRANK ZANGARI" wrote in message
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I am trying to copy my files to a cd.
When i click on properties it has a check mark on archive.
When I right click to send that file to cd-rw a bubble
comes up and says,,
Can not copy business card, access is denied.
Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that
the file is not in use.

I even tried this on my computer and went to explore and
tried it from there and still get the same bubble.

Properties has a check mark on archive and not on read
only.

Can you help me on this. please be explicit.
I'm no computer nerd.
Thank you