So which bits are wrong? There's no myths there. These are facts and
observation over many years of using Word, reading MSKB articles and
discussions with other Word experts that know far more than me..

tf


"POP" wrote in message
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: TF wrote:
: The reasons were mainly that floppies are (relatively) VERY
: slow to read or write and not the most reliable media. When
: Word saves (especially in older versions), it needs to
: build up the saved file and it does this by creating a
: temporary file in the target folder gradually adding or
: overwriting bits until it has a complete file. This is then
: rewritten and saved as the document file. But the temp file
: is locked and active until the document is fully closed and
: Word/Windows releases the temp file.
:
: Problems become serious if the file is fairly large or the
: floppy is partially filled because the document file and
: the temp files may have insufficient room to co-exist on
: the floppy. To make matters worse, simultaneous reading and
: writing to the floppy is happening at the very slow rate of
: the floppy drive.
:
: So all in all, it was hardly surprising that floppies were
: a disaster with Word! The best and safest solution for you
: is to write your macro to save the file to the main HDD and
: then COPY or MOVE it to the mem stick.
:
: Although Word is not so demanding these days, problems
: still do occur. I have a colleague who has now twice
: corrupted large documents using a memory stick to move
: between home and work to continue working on a document.
:
: You now know the risks!
:
:
: wrote in message
: ...
: Quite a lot has been written about avoiding corruption of
: documents, and one piece of advice has been "do not save
: to A: from Word (though from Explorer is okay). I
: habitually save to a memory stick/flash drive in drive E
: and I would like to automate this with a VBA macro. Does
: anyone have any information on why saving to A: from Word
: causes corruption, and more importantly whether or not
: saving to E: poses the same danger? Alternatively (and
: OT) is it possible to write a VBA (or other) Macro to
: invoke this procedure from a hot key while in Windows
: Explorer (where I currently do this manually)?
:
: TIA
:
: But over 50% of the things you said are just plain wrong and
: belong in the myth category; sorry.
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