Henry said:
1) Although my Floppy has more than 50% free space, I get
warnings that the Floppy might be too full.
How can I block that?
2) When I close and save a spread sheet I get a warning
to install the floppy, or the door might not be closed,
etc. Then it saves the file okay. Is that a software
glitch?
Floppies Can't Handle Word Documents?
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If you are using Word on a Windows XP system, you may have noticed a
bothersome error message that appears when you try to send a Word document
to a floppy drive. If you display the Open or Save As dialog box in Word,
right click on a file, and then choose Send To, you have the choice of where
to send your document. If you choose to send it to the A: drive (where you
have a floppy disk), you will see an error
message:
Windows Explorer
The Target can not handle this type of document.
This message is a bit misleading, as it is not singling out just your Word
document. In fact, the same message would occur regardless of the type of
file you try to send to the floppy. In addition, the problem isn't limited
just to floppies. If you tried to send the file to a different drive (such
as a Zip drive) or even to the My Documents folder, you would see the same
message.
Even though you may have noticed this problem when you were using Word, it
is not a problem with Word or with Word documents. This is a problem with
Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition. Microsoft knows of the
problem, as immortalized in Knowledge Base article 328856:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328856
There is no known cure for the problem, other than changing your operating
system. If you see the error message and click on OK, the file is still
copied to the target. If the message continues to bother you, you can try to
create your own Send To shortcut and the problem should be bypassed. Follow
these steps:
1. Get out of Word completely.
2. Make sure there is a floppy disk in the A: drive.
3. Choose My Computer from the Start menu. Windows shows the resources on
your computer.
4. Double-click the C: drive icon. Windows shows what is available on the C:
drive.
5. Double-click the Documents and Settings folder. Windows opens the folder.
6. Double-click the folder that has your user name on it. Windows opens the
folder.
7. If there is no SendTo folder visible in the window, choose Folder Options
from the Tools menu. In the dialog box, display
the View tab, then select the Show Hidden Files or Folders radio button.
When you close the dialog box, the SendTo folder should
be visible.
8. Double-click the SendTo folder. Windows opens the folder.
9. Choose New from the File menu, then choose Shortcut. Windows starts the
Create Shortcut wizard, the first screen of which
asks you to type a path.
10. Type A: and click Next. Windows accesses the A: drive for a short time
and then asks you to name your shortcut.
11. Enter a name such as Floppy and click on Finish. The shortcut appears in
the window.
12. Close the folder window.
Now, when you right-click a file, you should choose the new Floppy shortcut,
not the original shortcut. You should not see the error message.
Hope this helps, it is taken from an article in Wordtips Newsletter.
