Odd office 2000 behavior with XP PRO

[Rick Cooper]

Since upgrading one of the managers from WIN98 to XP PRO
she keeps having problems when opening her office
documents. If she reads something from a floppy, from
there on every time she opens another document (of any
office type) her floppy is accessed, some times for nearly
60 sec. If I remove the a:\whatever entry from the MRU
list it will do it one more time (always one) and then
then next time an office document is accessed the floppy
access problem is gone.

The is rather annoying behavior and she uses floppies to
move spreadsheets/word docs from home to work. Anyone have
an idea what is causing this (only since XP upgrade) and
how I can make Windows behave it's self?

Life is just to short for these ignorant type problems

Rick

 

[purplehaz]

This isn't really a answer to your problem, but floppies are old technology,
unreliable, too small, and did I mention old technology. Have her put her
spreadsheets on a cdrw disk. One disk can hold hundreds if not thousands of
spreadsheets. If she doesn't have cdrw drive they are really cheap and worth
every penny. Installs in five minutes.
This doesn't fix your current floppy problem, but it is the best solution in
the long run.

 

[DMMi]

Since upgrading one of the managers from WIN98 to XP PRO
she keeps having problems when opening her office
documents. If she reads something from a floppy, from
there on every time she opens another document (of any
office type) her floppy is accessed, some times for nearly
60 sec. If I remove the a:\whatever entry from the MRU
list it will do it one more time (always one) and then
then next time an office document is accessed the floppy
access problem is gone.

The is rather annoying behavior and she uses floppies to
move spreadsheets/word docs from home to work. Anyone have
an idea what is causing this (only since XP upgrade) and
how I can make Windows behave it's self?

Life is just to short for these ignorant type problems

Rick

You need to retrain your manager. Saving and opening Office files from any
removable media is a frequent cause of file corruption and loss of data.

She should save the file to the hard drive and then copy to the removable
media for transport. When she wants to use the file, she should copy it from
the removable media to her hard drive before opening the file.

Don