save documents to cr-rw

[Guest]

Word won't let me save documents directly to cd-rom (cd-rw); it says they're
"read only," and of course they're not.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

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 CD-RW drive can't keep up with Word. Windows considers anything on a CD as
read only. A CD-RW is treated the same way unless special software is used
(which can also be used on a regular CDR disk) but even with that software,
you should not be working on the document in Word from the CD. Period.
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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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[Doug Robbins]

You should always work on and save documents to the hard disk. Copy them to
a CD with Windows Explorer or some other program if you wish.

I think that you will find that documents that a copied to a CD have the
read only attribute set.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP