I want to change a CD-Read only file to a CD-RW File so that I ca.

[Guest]

I am having trouble creating a CD-RW file on a CD-RW Disk that can be edited
directly from the disk. When I save it , it creates a Read Only file on the
CD-RW disk which I cannot directly edit. Must I work on acopy of the file
from the hard drive
and then write over the old file on the disk? This seems like a lot of
humbug. If I had a floppy diskette I could edit it directly. How do I do
that On a CD-RW disk?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

NEVER change a file on a floppy and back to the floppy. That's just asking
for problems. Ditto for what you're trying to do with the disk. It only
takes a few moments to save the file to your hard disk, make your changes,
save it, and then put it back on your disk.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Because of the way Word works with temporary files it is extremely unwise to
save to removable media. Always read and write from the hard drive and copy
to the removable media.

The only way to work with CDRW media is by using third party software that
allows the disc to be used as a 'big floppy', but such software tends to be
rather unreliable. I urge you not to attempt it.

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[Charles Kenyon]

To reinforce what others have said...

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within 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.

A CDRW disk is not a hard drive and acts very differently under the surface.
It is not even like a floppy in that if you delete a file on a CDRW disk it
is still there, taking up room, it is just not available. The only way to
free up the room on such a disk is to reformat the disk.
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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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