Word 2003 hangs indefinitely looking for a floppy

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recently upgraded to office 2003, we are and have been running windows XP.
Since the upgrade if a user saves or opens a document in MS Word 2003 to/from
the floppy drive and then removes the floppy from the drive the next time
they try to save or open a file MS Word 2003 searches the a drive
continuously and the machine is effectively locked up. The user can do
nothing until they either reboot the machine or place a floppy in the drive.
Previous versions of word would scan the floppy and time out eventually
saying there was nothing in the drive.
 
Never work with documents directly to or from a floppy. It corrupts the file
and often the floppy as well. Copy the file to your hard disk (using Windows
Explorer), work on it, close it, copy it back to the floppy.

Previous versions of Word also had this problem. If you got away with it in
the past you were very lucky.
 
Nice in theory but you'll never get users to adhere to that, does anyone have
a solution? Corruption of data is not the problem, word hanging indefinitely
is the problem.
 
Hit them over the head until they do. A quick search of this forum will
bring up any number of posts on this topic and the answer is always the
same: never never never work with a document directly on any removable
medium. The problem is that Word doesn't actually work with the original
document at all -- it makes a copy and reads/writes that continually. This
kills the medium in no time; even auto-burn CDs don't survive.
 
Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2hhd24=?=,
Nice in theory but you'll never get users to adhere to that, does anyone have
a solution? Corruption of data is not the problem, word hanging indefinitely
is the problem.
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I agree with Jezebel. 100%. And if the users never experienced damaged files,
then they were double-lucky, until now.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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