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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM TO MY
FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT?? WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO START OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS... |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
"USING WORD, NEED ASSISTANCE,PLEASE......" USING WORD, NEED
wrote in message ... I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM TO MY FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT?? WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO START OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS... Well I certainly hope that all the documents you type for work are NOT all in caps. Please turn off your caps lock when posting here. if I interpret your post correctly, do NOT work from documents on a floppy disk, you WILL lose them. Copy them back to the HDD first, before opening them. |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
It is highly likely that you have corrupted your document. Saving or editing
a Word document on a floppy drive is hazardous. You need to save to the local hard disk and COPY the file to and from the floppy. Never open, save, edit or print using a floppy or most forms of Removable media. Also, please use your shift key as ALL CAPS is very difficult to read. Most people stop writing in BIG LETTERS around 5 years old. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "USING WORD, NEED ASSISTANCE,PLEASE......" USING WORD, NEED wrote in message ... I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM TO MY FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT?? WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO START OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS... |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
The error message was not telling you the document was not formatted. It was
telling you the disk was not formatted. This is a generic (and in this case bogus) error message but a strong suggestion that the file you were trying to open has become corrupted (if you did format the disk, you would certainly lose your data, but it is probably lost already). Saving a Word document directly to a floppy or other removable drive or opening one directly from such is one of the surest ways to corrupt the file. Always save your documents to the hard drive, then copy to the floppy; to open, copy from the floppy back to the HD and open from there. For now, copy the document to the HD (if you can), then try to open it. If you can't, and have Word 2003, use the Open and Repair option (click the arrow beside Open in the File Open dialog). If that doesn't help, or if that option is not available, select "Recover Text from Any File" as the file type in the Open dialog. -- 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. USING WORD; NEED ASSISTANCE; "PLEASE......" USING WORD, NEED wrote in message ... I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM TO MY FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT?? WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO START OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS... |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
And to chuck in my two pennorth. One exclamation mark is all you need on
each occasion. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The error message was not telling you the document was not formatted. It was telling you the disk was not formatted. This is a generic (and in this case bogus) error message but a strong suggestion that the file you were trying to open has become corrupted (if you did format the disk, you would certainly lose your data, but it is probably lost already). Saving a Word document directly to a floppy or other removable drive or opening one directly from such is one of the surest ways to corrupt the file. Always save your documents to the hard drive, then copy to the floppy; to open, copy from the floppy back to the HD and open from there. For now, copy the document to the HD (if you can), then try to open it. If you can't, and have Word 2003, use the Open and Repair option (click the arrow beside Open in the File Open dialog). If that doesn't help, or if that option is not available, select "Recover Text from Any File" as the file type in the Open dialog. -- 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. USING WORD; NEED ASSISTANCE; "PLEASE......" USING WORD, NEED wrote in message ... I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM TO MY FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT?? WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO START OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS... |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
Well the clue is '...many years ago'. Many years ago I was working with
Electric Pencil (who remembers that?) in 4K of memory and DOS. And before that I was working as an accountant with no *calculator* even. Computers were a rarity that only Defence and Lyons had room and money for. But we move on... "oe" wrote in message ... When I went to college to learn word processing many years ago, we were TAUGHT to save to floppy. When I took another course a couple of years ago, they were still teaching it - no wonder people go wrong! "aalaan" wrote in message ... And to chuck in my two pennorth. One exclamation mark is all you need on each occasion. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The error message was not telling you the document was not formatted. It was telling you the disk was not formatted. This is a generic (and in this case bogus) error message but a strong suggestion that the file you were trying to open has become corrupted (if you did format the disk, you would certainly lose your data, but it is probably lost already). Saving a Word document directly to a floppy or other removable drive or opening one directly from such is one of the surest ways to corrupt the file. Always save your documents to the hard drive, then copy to the floppy; to open, copy from the floppy back to the HD and open from there. For now, copy the document to the HD (if you can), then try to open it. If you can't, and have Word 2003, use the Open and Repair option (click the arrow beside Open in the File Open dialog). If that doesn't help, or if that option is not available, select "Recover Text from Any File" as the file type in the Open dialog. -- 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. USING WORD; NEED ASSISTANCE; "PLEASE......" USING WORD, NEED wrote in message ... I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM TO MY FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT?? WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO START OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS... |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "oe" wrote in message ... When I went to college to learn word processing many years ago, we were TAUGHT to save to floppy. When I took another course a couple of years ago, they were still teaching it - no wonder people go wrong! "aalaan" wrote in message ... And to chuck in my two pennorth. One exclamation mark is all you need on each occasion. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The error message was not telling you the document was not formatted. It was telling you the disk was not formatted. This is a generic (and in this case bogus) error message but a strong suggestion that the file you were trying to open has become corrupted (if you did format the disk, you would certainly lose your data, but it is probably lost already). Saving a Word document directly to a floppy or other removable drive or opening one directly from such is one of the surest ways to corrupt the file. Always save your documents to the hard drive, then copy to the floppy; to open, copy from the floppy back to the HD and open from there. For now, copy the document to the HD (if you can), then try to open it. If you can't, and have Word 2003, use the Open and Repair option (click the arrow beside Open in the File Open dialog). If that doesn't help, or if that option is not available, select "Recover Text from Any File" as the file type in the Open dialog. -- 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. USING WORD; NEED ASSISTANCE; "PLEASE......" USING WORD, NEED wrote in message ... I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM TO MY FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT?? WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO START OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS... |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
Yes, well I did that too... Must have done something right. One of my pupils
is now a headmaster... "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "oe" wrote in message ... When I went to college to learn word processing many years ago, we were TAUGHT to save to floppy. When I took another course a couple of years ago, they were still teaching it - no wonder people go wrong! "aalaan" wrote in message ... And to chuck in my two pennorth. One exclamation mark is all you need on each occasion. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The error message was not telling you the document was not formatted. It was telling you the disk was not formatted. This is a generic (and in this case bogus) error message but a strong suggestion that the file you were trying to open has become corrupted (if you did format the disk, you would certainly lose your data, but it is probably lost already). Saving a Word document directly to a floppy or other removable drive or opening one directly from such is one of the surest ways to corrupt the file. Always save your documents to the hard drive, then copy to the floppy; to open, copy from the floppy back to the HD and open from there. For now, copy the document to the HD (if you can), then try to open it. If you can't, and have Word 2003, use the Open and Repair option (click the arrow beside Open in the File Open dialog). If that doesn't help, or if that option is not available, select "Recover Text from Any File" as the file type in the Open dialog. -- 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. USING WORD; NEED ASSISTANCE; "PLEASE......" USING WORD, NEED wrote in message ... I TYPED UP DOCUMENTS FOR WORK USING WORD, WHEN I FINISHED I SAVED THEM TO MY FLOPPY, THEN TRIED TO PRINT THEM OUT, SOMETHING POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT WERE NTO FORMATTED, DID I WANT TO FORMAT?? WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS IF I FORMAT, WILL I LOSE MY DOCUMENTS AND HAVE TO START OVER??APPRECIATE ANY HELP ON THIS... |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
By the premise of that aphorism (which I hate), you must have done something
wrong. On 9/20/06 9:47 PM, "aalaan" wrote: Yes, well I did that too... Must have done something right. One of my pupils is now a headmaster... "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "oe" wrote in message ... When I went to college to learn word processing many years ago, we were TAUGHT to save to floppy. When I took another course a couple of years ago, they were still teaching it - no wonder people go wrong! |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
Sorry - it wasn't that many years ago; in fact, the last time I saw it
taught this way was about 4 years ago when I was taking City & Guild exams! I did explain to the lecturer why it's not a good idea - to no avail! "Gordon" wrote in message ... "oe" wrote in message ... When I went to college to learn word processing many years ago, we were TAUGHT to save to floppy. that's because there were no hard disk drives! When I took another course a couple of years ago, they were still teaching it - no wonder people go wrong! Was that with Word? Other WP applications such as WordPerfect and OpenOffice Write are quite capable of saving and working directly to and from floppies - for some unknown unintelligible reason, Word makes a temporary copy of the document being worked on in the same place as the original! Way to go, MS! |
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can you format a document after you have already typed it????
A lecturer who cannot himself learn from experiences is a liability
Word is not designed to be used with floppy discs and such attempted use if the major source of document corruption. This was equally true four years ago. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org oe wrote: Sorry - it wasn't that many years ago; in fact, the last time I saw it taught this way was about 4 years ago when I was taking City & Guild exams! I did explain to the lecturer why it's not a good idea - to no avail! "Gordon" wrote in message ... "oe" wrote in message ... When I went to college to learn word processing many years ago, we were TAUGHT to save to floppy. that's because there were no hard disk drives! When I took another course a couple of years ago, they were still teaching it - no wonder people go wrong! Was that with Word? Other WP applications such as WordPerfect and OpenOffice Write are quite capable of saving and working directly to and from floppies - for some unknown unintelligible reason, Word makes a temporary copy of the document being worked on in the same place as the original! Way to go, MS! |
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