[Graham Mayor]

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.

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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
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"oe" wrote in message
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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!