but I imagine you could save it to a floppy as well.
Don't save to a floppy.
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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macnutt said:
I've had this happen both on my home system and at work on the network.
Here's what I did. I saved the document under a new name to a different
drive. In the case of a network I saved to my local hard drive instead of a
network drive. At home I saved it to a different hard drive, but I imagine
you could save it to a floppy as well. Then I re-booted Windows
(shift-restart) and the problem didn't recur.
