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Mysterious problem saving to the 3.5 inch drive
Okay, this is weird one. Microsoft Word (Office 2000 on Windows 2000) will
no longer allow me to "save as" to the 3.5 inch drive. The drive has been checked by a tech. It does work. In fact, I made a shortcut on the desktop for the 3.5 inch drive. I'm able to drag word documents into the shortcut and into the disc. So, when I "save as" to the 3.5 inch drive the computer locks up and will only restart with a hard reboot. I reinstalled Office 2000 and still have the problem. How do I fix this without reinstalling my operating system? Can anyone help? |
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You shouldn't do that anyway. Save it locally and then go into Windows
Explorer and send it to the A drive. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Interim Department Tech - Uhhhgg!" Interim Department Tech - wrote in message ... Okay, this is weird one. Microsoft Word (Office 2000 on Windows 2000) will no longer allow me to "save as" to the 3.5 inch drive. The drive has been checked by a tech. It does work. In fact, I made a shortcut on the desktop for the 3.5 inch drive. I'm able to drag word documents into the shortcut and into the disc. So, when I "save as" to the 3.5 inch drive the computer locks up and will only restart with a hard reboot. I reinstalled Office 2000 and still have the problem. How do I fix this without reinstalling my operating system? Can anyone help? |
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As JoAnn implies, Word is really saving you from yourself, as it is never
advisable to save directly to a floppy drive (it's one of the top three causes of document corruption). Save to the HD first and then Copy or Send (or drag, as you are already doing) to the floppy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Interim Department Tech - Uhhhgg!" Interim Department Tech - wrote in message ... Okay, this is weird one. Microsoft Word (Office 2000 on Windows 2000) will no longer allow me to "save as" to the 3.5 inch drive. The drive has been checked by a tech. It does work. In fact, I made a shortcut on the desktop for the 3.5 inch drive. I'm able to drag word documents into the shortcut and into the disc. So, when I "save as" to the 3.5 inch drive the computer locks up and will only restart with a hard reboot. I reinstalled Office 2000 and still have the problem. How do I fix this without reinstalling my operating system? Can anyone help? |
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Wouldn't it be great if our computer would *always* stop us from doing
stupid stuff or bad practices? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... As JoAnn implies, Word is really saving you from yourself, as it is never advisable to save directly to a floppy drive (it's one of the top three causes of document corruption). Save to the HD first and then Copy or Send (or drag, as you are already doing) to the floppy. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Interim Department Tech - Uhhhgg!" Interim Department Tech - wrote in message ... Okay, this is weird one. Microsoft Word (Office 2000 on Windows 2000) will no longer allow me to "save as" to the 3.5 inch drive. The drive has been checked by a tech. It does work. In fact, I made a shortcut on the desktop for the 3.5 inch drive. I'm able to drag word documents into the shortcut and into the disc. So, when I "save as" to the 3.5 inch drive the computer locks up and will only restart with a hard reboot. I reinstalled Office 2000 and still have the problem. How do I fix this without reinstalling my operating system? Can anyone help? |
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