excel crashing

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I have windows XP and Excel 2003 with all the latest service packs. When I am
trying to save an excel file to a floppy it always lock up after 3 or 4
times. Excel will just crash and it would take a restart of the whole
computer before it will act right. I have tried other floppies, copying a
different file all together from excel, swapping drives, reinstalling the
whole office suite, reinstalling McAfee Virus Scan, etc. I did notice that it
is something with excel and the floppy drive as a whole because I could copy
all day long to the floppy random files from word, my c drive, a few files
from excel (but not consecuetive .xls files in a row), and shortcuts, etc. I
could copy .xls file to anyother drive i.e. bonzai (jump drive) that I have
just not the floppy drive.

Can you please help me to figure out why excel keeps crashing copying to a
floppy?
 
Hi

You should never save an Excel sheet directly to a floppy - or open one
directly from a floppy. Always copy to the hard drive and open - or save to
the hard drive and copy to the floppy.

Andy.
 
Ok thanks for the heads up but do you or anyone out there no why it is
locking excel up? I can save to a floppy on other machines but not to this
particular one. Any help would be appreciated...
 
I have the same problem as Robin. I have two users. User 1 has Windows 2000
and Office 2000 and user 2 has Windows 2000 and Office 2003. Both have been
doing the same routine for years without a problem. All of a sudden they both
have problem with Office freezing when saving to floppy. User 1 is using
Excel and user 2 with Word. I know everyone says don't save directly to
floppy but these users do. The problem is from a Windows Update but I don't
know which one. Can anyone help figure this out? Thanks!
 

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