Re: Restricting Save and Save as to diskette only

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From: Margaret Aldis (Margaret.Aldis_at_mvps.(SpamStopper)org.invalid)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:24:38 +0100

I think you have missed the point.

If people open Word documents from, or save to, floppy they will corrupt
their documents. If you can't allow them to save and work on a scratch area
of hard disk you might as well block their use of Word altogether. 

-- 
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org
"security_freak" <securityfreak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B15F95D9-8721-44FA-9211-F745F66CA430@microsoft.com...
> Hello Graham,
> You seem to have missed a very important point in my message. This is on
> workstations used by hundreds of people a week in a public library
> environment. I have limited the access to only the diskette through
Fortres
> 101 (a security software)and redirection of My Documents to the floppy.All
I
> want is to remove all the choices that appear under the drop down menu
except
> for the floppy.
> Thank you
>
> "Graham Mayor" wrote:
>
> > NO! NO! NO!
> >
> > Saving to floppy disc is the surest method of corrupting documents. You
must
> > not do this. Save to the hard drive and COPY to floppy.
> >
> > -- 
> > <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> > Graham Mayor -  Word MVP
> >
> > My web site www.gmayor.com
> > Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
> > <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> >
> >
> >
> > security_freak wrote:
> > > Is there any way to show only drive A: when user clicks on Save or
> > > Save as or disable the drop down menu. I'm using Word 2003 on a XP
> > > Pro SP2 machine with the classic menu.
> >
> >
> >

Relevant Pages

  • Re: What have I done?
    ... Try the Open and Repair option - but it sounds as though it is corrupt. ... you try saving it to a floppy or removable drive rather than the local hard ... Terry Farrell - Word MVP ...
    (microsoft.public.word.application.errors)
  • Re: Disk needs to be formatted
    ... Your floppy is now corrupt. ... I think there are some retrieval tools that are still around... ... Is the information on the disk retrievable? ...
    (microsoft.public.word.docmanagement)
  • Re: Exasperating mis-alignment
    ... If you opened the file directly from the floppy, ... corrupt and trying some of the fixes described at ... Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org ... "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ...
    (microsoft.public.word.application.errors)
  • Re: When I have come to use docs saved on disc, I only see squares?
    ... corrupt. ... Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. ... Copy to the hard disc and work on the document from there. ... Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ...
    (microsoft.public.word.docmanagement)
  • Re: how can i get info from a diskette that is corrupt or not format
    ... floppy or save directly to a floppy. ... Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org ... > i have a floppy disk that was working however now everytime i put it in my ... > message that the file was corrupt and there would be serious problems ...
    (microsoft.public.word.application.errors)