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Never, never, never save directly to a floppy. Or a CD either. And never,
never, never, open a file on a floppy or CD. Having said that, you need to save the file to your hard drive and then copy it over to the floppy. But never, never, never save a file directly to a floppy. (Just making sure you understand this completely. Unless you like trashing your hard work.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "E" wrote in message ... I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop |
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Find the documents is Windows Explorer. Then insert your floppy disk and
open My Computer. Find the floppy on it, double click it to open it. Select your document files and drag them to the floppy disk window. Windows will copy them to the floppy. If there are too many to fit, Windows will copy what will fit. Then put in another floppy and copy the ones that still need to be copied. If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within 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, schools) 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "E" wrote in message ... I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop |
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Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E :
I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice.
-- 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. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:25:58 -0600 from Suzanne S. Barnhill
: "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice. It's always hard to know when to answer the question that was actually asked and when to attack ... er, I mean "challenge" the underlying assumptions. This time I chose the former. FWIW, I agree that saving to hard drive and then copying to floppy is a safer procedure, less likely to result in a lost document. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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Hi Stan,
Top posting: Top posting seems to be the norm in these newsgroups. I suspect that this is because the people doing the most reading in them tend to read things in threads. They will have the context without the quoted material and if responses are top-posted it makes it easy to skim. I agree that it makes things difficult if you print out a post and try to read it. Answering the question that is asked: If a child asks me how to light a tank of gasoline, my response is DON'T. People asking for help here are not children and need not be patronized. However, all of us are ignorant to some extent in some matters. Often that ignorance is inconsequential, other times it is like a child not knowing the explosive properties of gasoline. If you choose to tell the child how to light the gasoline, please, at least tell them it is not a good idea. I've been reading these newsgroups for far too long I guess. And, I've seen people who's master's thesis or annual report was on that floppy disk, and it is the only copy, and their deadline is tomorrow... And all I can do is cry a little with them. Word shouldn't do this, but it does. -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:25:58 -0600 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice. It's always hard to know when to answer the question that was actually asked and when to attack ... er, I mean "challenge" the underlying assumptions. This time I chose the former. FWIW, I agree that saving to hard drive and then copying to floppy is a safer procedure, less likely to result in a lost document. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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In some versions of Word, with recent updates, you will get an error message
if you try to save to a removable drive, making this advice even more problematic. -- 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. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:25:58 -0600 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice. It's always hard to know when to answer the question that was actually asked and when to attack ... er, I mean "challenge" the underlying assumptions. This time I chose the former. FWIW, I agree that saving to hard drive and then copying to floppy is a safer procedure, less likely to result in a lost document. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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Glad I read this post, I would never have known not to save directly to a
floppy. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In some versions of Word, with recent updates, you will get an error message if you try to save to a removable drive, making this advice even more problematic. -- 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. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:25:58 -0600 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice. It's always hard to know when to answer the question that was actually asked and when to attack ... er, I mean "challenge" the underlying assumptions. This time I chose the former. FWIW, I agree that saving to hard drive and then copying to floppy is a safer procedure, less likely to result in a lost document. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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If truth be told - I didn't know that either until I started reading this
group. Since learning how/why it is a bad idea, it makes perfect sense and I make sure that I spread the word amongst my friends and acquaintances. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "cestbarb" wrote in message news  Glad I read this post, I would never have known not to save directly to a floppy. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In some versions of Word, with recent updates, you will get an error message if you try to save to a removable drive, making this advice even more problematic. -- 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. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:25:58 -0600 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice. It's always hard to know when to answer the question that was actually asked and when to attack ... er, I mean "challenge" the underlying assumptions. This time I chose the former. FWIW, I agree that saving to hard drive and then copying to floppy is a safer procedure, less likely to result in a lost document. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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I keep wondering about what the repercussions are for folks who have to use
public computers. For example, I'm sure our public library doesn't allow anyone to save to the HD. They don't even let anyone bring in their own floppies; users have to buy one from the library and leave it there (fear of viruses). But I don't think any instructions are given on not saving too often in Word or closing and reopening frequently to delete temp files. I suspect most users probably never save at all (except perhaps when they're done)--just type and print. -- 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. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... If truth be told - I didn't know that either until I started reading this group. Since learning how/why it is a bad idea, it makes perfect sense and I make sure that I spread the word amongst my friends and acquaintances. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "cestbarb" wrote in message news Glad I read this post, I would never have known not to save directly to a floppy. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In some versions of Word, with recent updates, you will get an error message if you try to save to a removable drive, making this advice even more problematic. -- 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. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:25:58 -0600 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice. It's always hard to know when to answer the question that was actually asked and when to attack ... er, I mean "challenge" the underlying assumptions. This time I chose the former. FWIW, I agree that saving to hard drive and then copying to floppy is a safer procedure, less likely to result in a lost document. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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I never thought of that. I had a friend who used to use the library's
computers and I remember she said that she had to leave the floppy there. She kept her resume on that disk so I know she used it often. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I keep wondering about what the repercussions are for folks who have to use public computers. For example, I'm sure our public library doesn't allow anyone to save to the HD. They don't even let anyone bring in their own floppies; users have to buy one from the library and leave it there (fear of viruses). But I don't think any instructions are given on not saving too often in Word or closing and reopening frequently to delete temp files. I suspect most users probably never save at all (except perhaps when they're done)--just type and print. -- 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. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... If truth be told - I didn't know that either until I started reading this group. Since learning how/why it is a bad idea, it makes perfect sense and I make sure that I spread the word amongst my friends and acquaintances. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "cestbarb" wrote in message news Glad I read this post, I would never have known not to save directly to a floppy. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In some versions of Word, with recent updates, you will get an error message if you try to save to a removable drive, making this advice even more problematic. -- 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. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:25:58 -0600 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice. It's always hard to know when to answer the question that was actually asked and when to attack ... er, I mean "challenge" the underlying assumptions. This time I chose the former. FWIW, I agree that saving to hard drive and then copying to floppy is a safer procedure, less likely to result in a lost document. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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Word 2002 and 2003 attempt to alleviate the problem with the "Make local
copy of files stored on network or removable drives," but this would still not be helpful is there is no scratch area of the HD accessible to users. -- 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. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . I never thought of that. I had a friend who used to use the library's computers and I remember she said that she had to leave the floppy there. She kept her resume on that disk so I know she used it often. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I keep wondering about what the repercussions are for folks who have to use public computers. For example, I'm sure our public library doesn't allow anyone to save to the HD. They don't even let anyone bring in their own floppies; users have to buy one from the library and leave it there (fear of viruses). But I don't think any instructions are given on not saving too often in Word or closing and reopening frequently to delete temp files. I suspect most users probably never save at all (except perhaps when they're done)--just type and print. -- 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. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... If truth be told - I didn't know that either until I started reading this group. Since learning how/why it is a bad idea, it makes perfect sense and I make sure that I spread the word amongst my friends and acquaintances. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "cestbarb" wrote in message news
Glad I read this post, I would never have known not to save directlyto a floppy. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In some versions of Word, with recent updates, you will get an error message if you try to save to a removable drive, making this advice even more problematic. -- 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. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:25:58 -0600 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:58:23 -0800 from E : I have a number of documents that I would like to save to floppy disks. All documents were written on Microsoft Word. I don't want a hard copy, I would like to save All my documents to floppy disks. I am runnuing Microsoft Xp ( Home edition) LapTop In Word, do File Save As and select your floppy drive. If the files are already on the hard drive AND WORD IS NOT RUNNING, open Windows Explorer, Richt-click on the files, and select Send To. I suggest you read (and heed) JoAnn's and Charles's advice. It's always hard to know when to answer the question that was actually asked and when to attack ... er, I mean "challenge" the underlying assumptions. This time I chose the former. FWIW, I agree that saving to hard drive and then copying to floppy is a safer procedure, less likely to result in a lost document. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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