Word Viewer

[Guest]

From the internet, I open a word document that automatically opens in Word Viewer. Word Viewer does not let me edit the doc, only view. I am trying to type text on this document and open it in regular Word program so that I can edit it there and save it to floppy. I try select all, or copy, and still nothing. Any ideas? Getting frustrated. Thanks.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Word Viewer, as its name suggests, is only designed to allow viewing of
Word documents. You cannot edit documents in Word Viewer.

On the web page where you found the link the Word document that you're
trying to access, right-click on the link, then left-click on Save
Target As (or Save Link Target As). Select a directory on your hard
drive, and click on Save. Then use your regular Word program (not Word
Viewer) to open and edit the file you just saved.

Don't save a document directly from Word to a floppy disk... it will
probably corrupt the document. Save the document from Word to your hard
drive, close the Word document, and then use Windows to copy the file to
your floppy disk.

 

[Guest]

You need to click the button "Edit in Word" in order to make editing changes.

Also, a note of caution, you should work with Word documents stored directly on a floppy or any other type of removable media, including USB drives.

This is one of the leading causes of document corruption and trust me, you don't want to find this out the hard way.

I recently starting 'trusting' a USB drive (since in my preliminary tests I didn't encounter and problems) and ended up with corrupt document. Of course it was an important document which is typically the case when 'things go wrong'. :-(

Instead you should save it to your local drive and copy it to the floppy *after* the document is closed.

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Beth Melton

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What Beth meant to say was, "you should *not* work with Word documents
stored directly on a floppy or any other type of removable media, including
USB drives."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

You need to click the button "Edit in Word" in order to make editing changes.

Also, a note of caution, you should work with Word documents stored

directly on a floppy or any other type of removable media, including USB
drives.

This is one of the leading causes of document corruption and trust me, you

don't want to find this out the hard way.

I recently starting 'trusting' a USB drive (since in my preliminary tests

I didn't encounter and problems) and ended up with corrupt document. Of
course it was an important document which is typically the case when 'things
go wrong'. :-(

Instead you should save it to your local drive and copy it to the floppy

*after* the document is closed.

--
Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Email requests for assistance can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~
Beth Melton

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/

Word Viewer. Word Viewer does not let me edit the doc, only view. I am
trying to type text on this document and open it in regular Word program so
that I can edit it there and save it to floppy. I try select all, or copy,
and still nothing. Any ideas? Getting frustrated. Thanks.

 

[Beth Melton]

Yes that is indeed what I meant. Good catch Suzanne. Thanks!