In my university, there is only 1 computer lab with disk drives. And
whenever I save my work onto a disk, it usually can't be opened again...even
on the same computer that I saved it on! It says "the document name or path
is not valid". Even if the disk has worked in the past, sometimes it just
stops working. Is there anything I can do about this?

Saving a document directly to a diskette is an almost certain way of
corrupting it. You should always save to the hard drive and then use
Windows Explorer to copy it to the diskette.

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"redskittle96" wrote in message
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In my university, there is only 1 computer lab with disk drives. And
whenever I save my work onto a disk, it usually can't be opened
again...even
on the same computer that I saved it on! It says "the document name or
path
is not valid". Even if the disk has worked in the past, sometimes it just
stops working. Is there anything I can do about this?

How do I do that?

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

Saving a document directly to a diskette is an almost certain way of
corrupting it. You should always save to the hard drive and then use
Windows Explorer to copy it to the diskette.

--
Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid
consulting basis.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"redskittle96" wrote in message
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In my university, there is only 1 computer lab with disk drives. And
whenever I save my work onto a disk, it usually can't be opened
again...even
on the same computer that I saved it on! It says "the document name or
path
is not valid". Even if the disk has worked in the past, sometimes it just
stops working. Is there anything I can do about this?

And is there any way to recover my old work?

and is there any way to recover my old work?

Probably not, but if the floppy is still readable - see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

Never ever read from, write to or print from floppy with Word. This is the
most certain method of ensuring document corruption. Copy to the hard disc
and work on the document from there.

You can do this using Windows Explorer which is installed by default on all
Windows PCs. Drag the file to and from the floppy drive (A to a folder on
the hard drive (probably C

If you must move documents between PCs, then a USB flash drive would be a
safer option.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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redskittle96 wrote:
and is there any way to recover my old work?