Re: Word 2003 Keeps Crashing

From: Jane Tutor (JaneTutor_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:35:42 -0800

Beth,

Thankyou for your in-depth response. You anticipated my questions about
copying the floppy disk file to my computer before working on it.

I just bought a new computer and installed Office Professional 2003. I
never had a problem with the floppys when I had Word 2000. I was afraid that
i broke the computer or did something to mess up the Office Software.

Thanks again for your response. I'm considering forwarding your
instructions to my "Introduction to Computer's" instructor to see what he
says. It should be interesting.

Jane

"Beth Melton" wrote:

> If your computer instructor taught you to use the floppy disks
> exclusively then I'd say your computer instructor didn't have much
> "real world" experience with Word. If he or she did they would have
> encountered file corruption at some point. As an instructor myself
> this is one of the first things I train in my Word classes since I
> encountered this long ago.
>
> Training to work directly off a floppy is like telling a business
> person they must work exclusively out of their briefcase and aren't
> allow to remove a file. A floppy disk is a means of transporting a
> file much like a briefcase. Just as you should take files out of your
> briefcase and spread them out on your desk so you have room to work
> you should take the file off the floppy and work with it on your local
> drive because Word needs room to work as well.
>
> Aside from the various temp files it creates in the same location as
> the document, when you save a document Word creates a temp file with
> all of your modifications since the last save, deletes the original,
> and moves the temp file to take the original document's place. IOW
> when you save there are two copies of the file on the floppy disk at
> that given time. If you are running short of space Word will do as
> much as it can but if it doesn't have enough room there is no place to
> go so it ends the transaction. You may encounter a message but then
> again you may not depending on what specifically is happening at the
> time.
>
> In any event, I don't know why you don't encounter the "A:\ Drive not
> available" message. I suspect it has to do with the way Word searches
> for the temp files. They've made a lot of changes to how Word accesses
> files through the years in order to optimize processing. I know you
> don't want to hear this but the only way to truly prevent it from ever
> happening again is to not work directly off a floppy.
>
> Instead you should double-click My Computer to open it and route to
> the Floppy. Make sure you have a Restored window (you should be able
> to see part of the Desktop) then drag/drop the file from the Floppy
> window to the Desktop. Then double-click to open the file and start
> Word.
>
> Once you're finished editing and after the file is closed then
> right-click the file and select Send to/3 1/2" Floppy. Once the copy
> is complete then just drag the file from the Desktop to the Recycle
> bin. If you use this method I believe you'll find that response time
> while working in the document is faster than working directly off the
> floppy. Not to mention your chances of a corrupt file will have
> substantially decreased. :-)
>
> --
> Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
> assistance by email can not be acknowledged.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Beth Melton
> Microsoft Office MVP
>
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>
>
> "Jane Tutor" <JaneTutor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:845716C0-BADB-49A8-8E64-6EB07CD838E8@microsoft.com...
> >
> > 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
>
>
>

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