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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
I have a new Windows Vista and I don't know how to save my file to a floppy
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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption. Copy to/from the hard disc and work on the document from there. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org CGreene331 wrote: I have a new Windows Vista and I don't know how to save my file to a floppy disc. Can anyone help me? |
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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so one
can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will copy it to the hard drive before working on it...) I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing? And if this is really the case, then why is this question being asked in the Word NG when saving to a floppy drive is really a OS-level operation? And if we can get past all that and make some assumptions - that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive and wants to save a _Word_ document to floppy for whatever reason from within Word - then the question still stands: How does one save a file to a floppy drive? The answer is the same as it would be for saving to any other location: use Save As and select the desired destination. Of course, the exactly steps for doing this depend on the version of Word in use and the designation of the floppy drive, and without this information it's not possible to provide a more exact answer. -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no membership required! "Graham Mayor" wrote: Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption. Copy to/from the hard disc and work on the document from there. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org CGreene331 wrote: I have a new Windows Vista and I don't know how to save my file to a floppy disc. Can anyone help me? |
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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
It is certainly possible to have a floppy drive on a PC equipped with Vista
either internally or externally. It is the wisdom of saving to it with Word that is at issue. When working with Word documents you have no idea whatsoever of the size of the document nor of the size of essential temporary files it creates in the working folder. If the application cannot create its temporary files, the document will be corrupted, usually without warning. For this reason it has long been undesirable to save to floppy (or in any way work from floppy) with Word. Floppy can be used a a transport medium for documents that will fit, but you should always *copy* to and from the hard drive. See the macros at Save a backup and copy to removable media - http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com wrote: Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so one can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will copy it to the hard drive before working on it...) I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing? And if this is really the case, then why is this question being asked in the Word NG when saving to a floppy drive is really a OS-level operation? And if we can get past all that and make some assumptions - that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive and wants to save a _Word_ document to floppy for whatever reason from within Word - then the question still stands: How does one save a file to a floppy drive? The answer is the same as it would be for saving to any other location: use Save As and select the desired destination. Of course, the exactly steps for doing this depend on the version of Word in use and the designation of the floppy drive, and without this information it's not possible to provide a more exact answer. Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption. Copy to/from the hard disc and work on the document from there. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org CGreene331 wrote: I have a new Windows Vista and I don't know how to save my file to a floppy disc. Can anyone help me? |
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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
On Jul 17, 12:26*am, Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com gordon
(dot)bentleymix(at)gmail(dot)com wrote: Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so one can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will copy it to the hard drive before working on it...) I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing? I'm using one right now. What do you do when an old-fashioned person gives you something on a floppy disk? |
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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
I try to find a computer with a floppy drive then transfer it over to a
flash drive. Then I teach the person who put it on the floppy about the merits of using flash drives. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... On Jul 17, 12:26 am, Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com gordon (dot)bentleymix(at)gmail(dot)com wrote: Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so one can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will copy it to the hard drive before working on it...) I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing? I'm using one right now. What do you do when an old-fashioned person gives you something on a floppy disk? |
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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
So far I've lost four flash drives ... ok, so three of them were in
the same tiny plastic bag that one of them came in ... On Jul 17, 10:55*am, "JoAnn Paules" wrote: I try to find a computer with a floppy drive then transfer it over to a flash drive. Then I teach the person who put it on the floppy about the merits of using flash drives. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... On Jul 17, 12:26 am, Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com gordon (dot)bentleymix(at)gmail(dot)com wrote: Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so one can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will copy it to the hard drive before working on it...) I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing? I'm using one right now. What do you do when an old-fashioned person gives you something on a floppy disk? |
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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
Ask in a Vista newsgroup?
"CGreene331" wrote in message ... :I have a new Windows Vista and I don't know how to save my file to a floppy : disc. Can anyone help me? |
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How can I save a file to a floppy disc?
Graham,
thanks for the point about those temporary files. I have read many manty posts over teh months about NOT working directly on file on a flash drive. This is the first one that gives specific details of WHY! I have been fortunate in NOT losing any data or corrupting files that I do edit directly from/to my flash drive. Being aware of the issue was a forewarning and I always keep a safety copy on teh hard disk. Thanks for sharing the WHY as well as the warning. Thank you "Graham Mayor" wrote: It is certainly possible to have a floppy drive on a PC equipped with Vista either internally or externally. It is the wisdom of saving to it with Word that is at issue. When working with Word documents you have no idea whatsoever of the size of the document nor of the size of essential temporary files it creates in the working folder. If the application cannot create its temporary files, the document will be corrupted, usually without warning. For this reason it has long been undesirable to save to floppy (or in any way work from floppy) with Word. Floppy can be used a a transport medium for documents that will fit, but you should always *copy* to and from the hard drive. See the macros at Save a backup and copy to removable media - http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com wrote: Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so one can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will copy it to the hard drive before working on it...) I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing? And if this is really the case, then why is this question being asked in the Word NG when saving to a floppy drive is really a OS-level operation? And if we can get past all that and make some assumptions - that the OP has a Vista machine with a floppy drive and wants to save a _Word_ document to floppy for whatever reason from within Word - then the question still stands: How does one save a file to a floppy drive? The answer is the same as it would be for saving to any other location: use Save As and select the desired destination. Of course, the exactly steps for doing this depend on the version of Word in use and the designation of the floppy drive, and without this information it's not possible to provide a more exact answer. Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption. Copy to/from the hard disc and work on the document from there. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org CGreene331 wrote: I have a new Windows Vista and I don't know how to save my file to a floppy disc. Can anyone help me? |
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