How do I back up all my documents onto floppies?

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I want to create a backup of all my documents each week. How do I do this?
(Searching for "backup" has not helped.)
 
This will depend on what backup software you're using and has nothing to do
with Word.

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I do not have ANY backup software (except Juno Backup Wizard for Juno
e-mail). I have Windows XP. Any suggestions?
 
Although not specifically aimed at this task, Microsoft's SyncToy makes a
fine job of backing up data
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
though please don't use floppies. Get a USB flash drive.

Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption.

Copy to the hard disc and work on the document from there.

This is equally relevant to other removable media such as CDRW and Flash
drives.

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I have Windows XP Pro but cannot find Backup (including doing a search but
not knowing which of the backups that were found is The One). Online
directions take me into Control Panel, Accessories, but then I don't find
anything the directions tell me to click onto. Thanks for all your help.
 
Did you read the referenced article on installing the backup accessory?

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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The referenced article refers to installing the backup accessory on XP Home.
I have XP Pro, which I have been told here already has backup installed.
That is where I am stuck. Thank you.
 
I have a slightly different problem. Everytime I create a document in
office, it creates a back up. I think I created this somehow when fooling
with my settings, but now I don't know how to get rid of it. It is jamming
up my memory. Thoughts
 
That is controlled by the option "Always create backup copy" in the Tools >
Options > Save dialog (in Word 2007, Office button > Word Options > Advanced >
Save).

You have a couple of misconceptions, though: The backup is not saved when you
create a document, it's made each time you save *after* the first save (it's
just a renamed copy of the file as it was before you hit the Save button, so it
isn't the same as the latest copy). The backup does not "jam up your memory"; at
worst it clutters the hard drive a little, and you can delete the backups at any
time.

Most important, though, if you turn off the backups in a misguided attempt to
run "clean", the day will come when you'll mess up a document and wish you had a
backup.

A better backup (and a real copy of the current file, not a one-version-back)
can be made with fellow MVP Graham Mayor's macro at
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. One of the things it does is to
save the backups to a different folder than the document's location, which means
you won't have to see them unless you go looking for one.

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Jay Freedman
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