Re: COPYING FILES TO CD-RW

From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 01/11/05


Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:21:25 -0600

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.

-- 
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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"FRANK ZANGARI" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:21b601c4f7fa$86025140$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I am trying to copy my files to a cd.
> When i click on properties it has a check mark on archive.
> When I right click to send that file to cd-rw a bubble
> comes up and says,,
> Can not copy business card, access is denied.
> Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that
> the file is not in use.
>
> I even tried this on my computer and went to explore and
> tried it from there and still get the same bubble.
>
> Properties has a check mark on archive and not on read
> only.
>
> Can you help me on this. please be explicit.
> I'm no computer nerd.
> Thank you 


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