Cannot open a Word document

[Guest]

I saved a Word file to 3.5 floppy and edited on another PC. Now the file won't open; message is "Word cannot open the document; user deos not have access privileges". All other files on the floppy also will not open. Cannot open with notepad or wordpad.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. 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.

I hope you kept a copy 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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I saved a Word file to 3.5 floppy and edited on another PC. Now the file

won't open; message is "Word cannot open the document; user deos not have
access privileges". All other files on the floppy also will not open.
Cannot open with notepad or wordpad.

 

[Guest]

Thank you. Unfortunately, this was my daughter and she apparently did not save to the hard drive. I even checked to see if she sent it as an attachment with e-mail but she did not. I was hoping there was a way to trick the file into opening through some other application but no luck.