Re: Word 2003 Keeps Crashing

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From: Jane Tutor (JaneTutor_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:57:02 -0800

This is all news to me. I was taught to use floppy disks exclusively in my
computer classes. I have always used floppy disks when I create documents
and then open and work on those documents right from the disk whenever I need
to.

So, why does Word keep spinning the disk and it wont stop? It used to have
a box that popped up that said the A drive was not accessible when I've
removed a disk. Now I can't open a file, or even close Word by clicking on
"File" at the top of the Word window, without having to shut down the entire
computer. Is there a way to get it to stop searching for the disk if it ever
happens again?

Jane

"Beth Melton" wrote:

> Herb provided you the 'fix', but just so you know, the spinning of the
> A drive is Word searching for temp files and attempting to delete
> them. If you haven't encountered corrupt files yet then you've been
> very lucky. I've lost count of the number of folks who have come to
> the newsgroup hoping to recover a corrupt file on a floppy disk.
> Unfortunately they had to learn this lesson the hard way. :-(
>
> --
> Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
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>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Beth Melton
> Microsoft Office MVP
>
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>
>
> "Jane Tutor" <JaneTutor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6527384F-B94A-489A-BFA0-0DFEFC10615F@microsoft.com...
> >I have WORD 2003. Whenever I finishing working on a file that's on a
> >floppy
> > disk, and I close that file and take out the disk, and then I click
> > on "File"
> > to open another WORD document that's on the C drive, the
> > computerimmediately
> > spins the A drive and it won't stop. The "Look In" Dialog box never
> > has a
> > chance to come up. I have to use the task manager to try to shut
> > down WORD,
> > and it won't shut down. It says that WORD is not responding. (It
> > says it
> > twice). I get a dialog box that asks if I want to report the error
> > to
> > Microsoft. Meanwhile, the A drive continues spinning and clacking,
> > and I
> > have to shut down the computer to get it to stop. I have done the
> > detect and
> > repair in WORD several times, but it hasn't helped. I'm using
> > Windows XP,
> > and I have Office 2003 Professional. Is there a fix for this
> > problem?
> >
> > Jane
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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