opening up a CD or disc on another computer

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Whenever I save a document onto either a CD or a disc, it can not be opened on anyone else's computer. The only thing that shows is symbols. Can anyone help?
 
Never open, work on, or save a Word document to CD or removable disk - it
will corrupt files as you see. Work on the hard disk, then when you have
saved the file copy it to the removable media.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
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nana said:
Whenever I save a document onto either a CD or a disc, it can not be
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opened on anyone else's computer. The only thing that shows is symbols. Can
anyone help?
 
If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in 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.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough
prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted
disk each time you save and don't do any editing.


--

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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nana said:
Whenever I save a document onto either a CD or a disc, it can not be
Click to expand...
opened on anyone else's computer. The only thing that shows is symbols. Can
anyone help?
 
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