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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000
My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one
directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and open it from there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000 My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
... You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and open it from there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000 My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from there. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
In which case it is already corrupt reinforcing the advice never to work
directly with a floppy disk (or any other removable media either). Try the Recover Text from any File Option (in the File Open dialog) and if that fails, try opening the doc in WordPad. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and open it from there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000 My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from there. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
They may already be corrupted, then, by having been saved directly to a
floppy, or by previous attempts at opening. You may be able to extract the text contents by using the "Recover Text from Any File" setting in the Open dialog. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and open it from there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000 My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from there. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
Can you open the documents via the Open dialog box (File | Open)?
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and open it from there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000 My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from there. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
... In which case it is already corrupt reinforcing the advice never to work directly with a floppy disk (or any other removable media either). Try the Recover Text from any File Option (in the File Open dialog) and if that fails, try opening the doc in WordPad. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and open it from there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000 My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from there. Sadly, I cannot find WordPad. Tried Find files and folders but, although there are lots of references to it, I could not locate it. It is of course in the Start menu but that will not assist me in this case. Can someone walk me through opening a file on 'C' in Notepad. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
To start WordPad: Start - All Programs - Accesxsories
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... Sadly, I cannot find WordPad. Tried Find files and folders but, although there are lots of references to it, I could not locate it. It is of course in the Start menu but that will not assist me in this case. Can someone walk me through opening a file on 'C' in Notepad. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
... In which case it is already corrupt reinforcing the advice never to work directly with a floppy disk (or any other removable media either). Try the Recover Text from any File Option (in the File Open dialog) and if that fails, try opening the doc in WordPad. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and open it from there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000 My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from there. Would you be more explicit here please: "Try the Recover Text from any File Option (in the File Open dialog)" I think I know what you mean, but would like to be sure that I doing the right thing. I could not open the files in WordPad. I am learning fast, but I need quite basic instructions as I am a bit out of my depth here at the moment. Thanks a lot. Emrys Davies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
... "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... In which case it is already corrupt reinforcing the advice never to work directly with a floppy disk (or any other removable media either). Try the Recover Text from any File Option (in the File Open dialog) and if that fails, try opening the doc in WordPad. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and open it from there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Emrys Davies" wrote in message ... I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000 My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the 'Save As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It was saved in Times New Roman -Normal. Everything was fine until today when the document would not open. The Open page displays Doc.1 Jerusalem and the Files of type shows: Word Documents. When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it does not open. The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated. One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the 'Files of type' have any extensions on them. I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine. Can you help please? Regards, Emrys Davies. I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from there. Would you be more explicit here please: "Try the Recover Text from any File Option (in the File Open dialog)" I think I know what you mean, but would like to be sure that I doing the right thing. I could not open the files in WordPad. I am learning fast, but I need quite basic instructions as I am a bit out of my depth here at the moment. Thanks a lot. Emrys Davies. Found that now: "Recover Text from any file" and working on it. Recovered some text which is somewhat jumbled, but I am getting there slowly. I think that the floppy is too corrupted, but not much has been lost. In any case most of the information, if not all, is on another floppy. Thanks, Emrys Davies. |
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