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Backup
seems odd that this isn't addressed in Word, but maybe i'm missing something.
I operate in a university environment where students have recently (last year or so) been losing data on floppy's for no apparent reason (floppy needs to be formatted, floppy was formatted for Macintosh, and other equally stupid error messages; the floppy data is recoverable with a 3rd party utility. usually it is FAT1 that is damaged. the frequency is too high to be actually defective floppies). I believe this is an XP problem, but this is not what i need help with. The issue is students will create a word doc, save it to floppy, leave and discover later it is not retrievable from the floppy. What i need is to auto-save on the hard drive every time a student saves to floppy. the gmayor save doc to two locations macro would work, except there is no way to hook it to the file-save function, and re-training a student body to use a special save button is not an option. Can it really be the case that there is no way to tell Word to at least save the wbk somewhere other than the current save folder? Or is there a solution i'm missing? |
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I don't know if you can have Word save in 2 locations at the same time such
as the hard drive and floppy. But you can set a default folder where the document will be saved such as a folder on a central file server that all students have access to. Use Microsoft Word to Change Where Office Documents Are Saved 1.. Start Microsoft Word. 2.. On the Tools menu, click Options . 3.. On the File Locations tab, click Documents , and then click Modify . 4.. In the Modify Location dialog box, change the Folder name or Look in box to the folder where you want to save your new documents, and then click OK . 5.. Click OK or Close to close the Options dialog box. -- audeyt "Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. This alias is for newsgroup purposes only." "fireftr" wrote in message ... seems odd that this isn't addressed in Word, but maybe i'm missing something. I operate in a university environment where students have recently (last year or so) been losing data on floppy's for no apparent reason (floppy needs to be formatted, floppy was formatted for Macintosh, and other equally stupid error messages; the floppy data is recoverable with a 3rd party utility. usually it is FAT1 that is damaged. the frequency is too high to be actually defective floppies). I believe this is an XP problem, but this is not what i need help with. The issue is students will create a word doc, save it to floppy, leave and discover later it is not retrievable from the floppy. What i need is to auto-save on the hard drive every time a student saves to floppy. the gmayor save doc to two locations macro would work, except there is no way to hook it to the file-save function, and re-training a student body to use a special save button is not an option. Can it really be the case that there is no way to tell Word to at least save the wbk somewhere other than the current save folder? Or is there a solution i'm missing? -- fireftr |
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