How do I save a Word Document to a disk

[Guest]

I have two disk drives on my Dell XPS. No matter what I try, cannot seem to
save a Word document to a disk. Have tried CD-RW, CD-R, and DVD-RW. How do
you save a Word document, or anything for that matter, to a disk?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Description of CD-R and CD-RW recording in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279157/en-us

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| I have two disk drives on my Dell XPS. No matter what I try, cannot seem to
| save a Word document to a disk. Have tried CD-RW, CD-R, and DVD-RW. How do
| you save a Word document, or anything for that matter, to a disk?

 

[RJK]

Tried digging out any burning software that might be on the machine and
using it ?

regards, Richard

 

[Rock]

I have two disk drives on my Dell XPS. No matter what I try, cannot seem
to
save a Word document to a disk. Have tried CD-RW, CD-R, and DVD-RW. How
do
you save a Word document, or anything for that matter, to a disk?

XP has no tools to burn DVDs. 3rd party software is needed for that. XP
can burn CDs and it treats CD-RW as CD-R, except they can be reused. If you
want to copy files to a CD as you would a big floppy, XP can't do that. 3rd
party packet writing software is needed. Here is a good article on burning
CDs in XP.

Burning CDs in Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

 

[HeyBub]

I have two disk drives on my Dell XPS. No matter what I try, cannot
seem to save a Word document to a disk. Have tried CD-RW, CD-R, and
DVD-RW. How do you save a Word document, or anything for that
matter, to a disk?

You can't.

XP has no native service to write to a CD. Therefore, no program, such as
Word, calling on services from XP can do so.

You must first save the file to a regular disk, then use some third-party
CD-writing software to get the file to a CD.

 

[Richard in AZ]

You can't.

XP has no native service to write to a CD. Therefore, no program, such as Word, calling on
services from XP can do so.

You must first save the file to a regular disk, then use some third-party CD-writing software to
get the file to a CD.

Partially wrong. XP does have the ability to copy files to a CD-R. But it cannot do it as a
SAVE-AS to a CD-R.
First save the file to the hard drive, in a folder like My Documents.
Then If you have CD-RW or DVD-RW drive, use Windows Explorer to drag it to that drive.
Put in a CD-R disk and open that drive in Windows Explorer and you will be asked if you want to burn
these files to the CD.