Word: Saving to a disk (Windows ME)

[Karen]

This question is for my mom. She is writing a book and
when she tries to save certain chapters to certain disks -
it saves *all* of the chapters to her disk(s). For example
she would like to save Ch. 1-5 on disk one, Ch. 6-9 on disk
two, and Ch. 10-12 on disk three. Can this be done in Word
(Windows Me).

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!
Karen

 

[Jezebel]

NEVER save Word documents directly to a floppy. File corruption is
inevitable sooner or later (usually sooner). Save them to the hard disk then
use Windows Explorer to copy them to the floppy. If your mom has been saving
directly to floppy in the past, as a matter or urgency copy them back to the
hard disk and check that they are still readable.

From your description, it sounds like these chapters are all in one
document: if you want to save them separately, you need to break the
document into separate files.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Hi,

This is a general message on saving files with the bottom line for you at
the end of the message. I would urge you (and your mother) to read the whole
message, though.

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.

So, your mom should be saving everything to the hard drive and then copying
the desired files to floppy disks in Windows.
--

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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