Why not? Floppy discs are an ancient technology. Word creates a host of
temporary files in the working folder. It is not possioble to pre-determine
the file size of the document nor the size of the temporaty files. If it
cannot create them through lack of space, then goodbye document, goodbye
disc. *Always* work from the hard drive and *copy* to removable media from
Windows.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Hi Ho Silver wrote:
Surely this can't be true?

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in
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) 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.

To answer your question, from within Word, open a document on your
hard drive.
--

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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"alanthegrey" wrote in
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I copied some Word documents onto my hard drive using the floppy.
The Floppy
drive now starts when I open Word. How can I stop this?