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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
... Why do you think this is a bad idea? The AutoRecovery backups are saved to the HD regardless of the location of the file itself, and the more often they are made (up to a point), the better. -- 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 ... 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 Susanne, A very relevant link, the contents of which I am still studying. Other advice is getting me there slowly and is very much appreciated. Just one point at the moment: I have 'Save AutoRecover info every 10 minutes' enabled and I am not sure that this is a good idea yet for the likes of myself and my wife, who I am helping. What are your thoughts on that please? Thanks, Emrys Davies. Suzanne It was something I read somewhere as to the merits of AutoRecover and I just needed reassurance, which is what you have given me. Another point which is fooling me somewhat: I know that I must not save directly to a floppy from Word or open it directly from Word. I accept that, but if I attempt to open a floppy indirectly from Windows Explorer I do not have access to 'Files of type' which is such a useful tool when trying to ascertain which files are held on a floppy. I note that WordPad is limited in that respect. Would you advise me on that aspect please as this is totally new ground for me? Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
Well that is not quite accurate either Bob.
Windows Explorer has options to arrange the folder contents (in this case the floppy contents) in several different orders. The useful one in this instance would be to select the 'group by type' option which means that the docs will be grouped together. However, as a final bit of advice, I would quite soon move all your old files off floppy disks completely. Floppies are ancient technology, prone to corruption, prone to physical damage and slow. I don't believe that anyone sells computers fitted with floppy drives as standard any more either. Far better to burn the archives to CDR or DVDR (using the verification process) and use the burning utility to create covers that list the contents. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "CyberTaz" wrote in message .. . The options available in the Files of Type list vary depending on the capabilities of the program involved. A program like WordPad is quite limited in what file types it can open so the list is restricted to those types only. Word, OTOH, is capable of opening a wider range of file types so the list will be more extensive. Since Windows Explorer is simply a navigation tool provided by Windows - not an application program - it doesn't have a list of file types, per se. Instead, opening a file from an Explorer window causes the appropriate program to be launched based on the file's association with that program. HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 10/31/07 9:24 AM, in article , "Emrys Davies" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Why do you think this is a bad idea? The AutoRecovery backups are saved to the HD regardless of the location of the file itself, and the more often they are made (up to a point), the better. -- 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 ... 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 Susanne, A very relevant link, the contents of which I am still studying. Other advice is getting me there slowly and is very much appreciated. Just one point at the moment: I have 'Save AutoRecover info every 10 minutes' enabled and I am not sure that this is a good idea yet for the likes of myself and my wife, who I am helping. What are your thoughts on that please? Thanks, Emrys Davies. Suzanne It was something I read somewhere as to the merits of AutoRecover and I just needed reassurance, which is what you have given me. Another point which is fooling me somewhat: I know that I must not save directly to a floppy from Word or open it directly from Word. I accept that, but if I attempt to open a floppy indirectly from Windows Explorer I do not have access to 'Files of type' which is such a useful tool when trying to ascertain which files are held on a floppy. I note that WordPad is limited in that respect. Would you advise me on that aspect please as this is totally new ground for me? Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
Many thanks everyone. You have been very very helpful and it is much
appreciated. Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
Hi Terry -
Please help me understand where the inaccuracy is. Although your suggestion is certainly helpful *sorting* the listed files by type isn't the same as *limiting* the list to display files of only a *certain* type... Which seemed to be what the OP was looking for and (AFAIK) can't be done in an Explorer window, whereas when using the Open or Save As dialog windows from within an application the Files of Type list does enable that constraint. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 10/31/07 10:19 AM, in article , "Terry Farrell" wrote: Well that is not quite accurate either Bob. Windows Explorer has options to arrange the folder contents (in this case the floppy contents) in several different orders. The useful one in this instance would be to select the 'group by type' option which means that the docs will be grouped together. However, as a final bit of advice, I would quite soon move all your old files off floppy disks completely. Floppies are ancient technology, prone to corruption, prone to physical damage and slow. I don't believe that anyone sells computers fitted with floppy drives as standard any more either. Far better to burn the archives to CDR or DVDR (using the verification process) and use the burning utility to create covers that list the contents. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
To add to what Bob and Terry have said, you don't want to open the file on
the floppy directly from Windows Explorer, either, as that amounts to the same thing as opening it from Word (since Word will start and open it). Instead, you need to use Windows Explorer to copy the file to the HD (to My Documents or an appropriate subfolder within), then open it from within Word. -- 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 ... Why do you think this is a bad idea? The AutoRecovery backups are saved to the HD regardless of the location of the file itself, and the more often they are made (up to a point), the better. -- 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 ... 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 Susanne, A very relevant link, the contents of which I am still studying. Other advice is getting me there slowly and is very much appreciated. Just one point at the moment: I have 'Save AutoRecover info every 10 minutes' enabled and I am not sure that this is a good idea yet for the likes of myself and my wife, who I am helping. What are your thoughts on that please? Thanks, Emrys Davies. Suzanne It was something I read somewhere as to the merits of AutoRecover and I just needed reassurance, which is what you have given me. Another point which is fooling me somewhat: I know that I must not save directly to a floppy from Word or open it directly from Word. I accept that, but if I attempt to open a floppy indirectly from Windows Explorer I do not have access to 'Files of type' which is such a useful tool when trying to ascertain which files are held on a floppy. I note that WordPad is limited in that respect. Would you advise me on that aspect please as this is totally new ground for me? Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
Well it doesn't 'limit' to display only a file type, but by grouping it by
type, you can limit yourself to looking at just that one group of docs or dots - which is virtually the same thing. Terry "CyberTaz" wrote in message .. . Hi Terry - Please help me understand where the inaccuracy is. Although your suggestion is certainly helpful *sorting* the listed files by type isn't the same as *limiting* the list to display files of only a *certain* type... Which seemed to be what the OP was looking for and (AFAIK) can't be done in an Explorer window, whereas when using the Open or Save As dialog windows from within an application the Files of Type list does enable that constraint. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 10/31/07 10:19 AM, in article , "Terry Farrell" wrote: Well that is not quite accurate either Bob. Windows Explorer has options to arrange the folder contents (in this case the floppy contents) in several different orders. The useful one in this instance would be to select the 'group by type' option which means that the docs will be grouped together. However, as a final bit of advice, I would quite soon move all your old files off floppy disks completely. Floppies are ancient technology, prone to corruption, prone to physical damage and slow. I don't believe that anyone sells computers fitted with floppy drives as standard any more either. Far better to burn the archives to CDR or DVDR (using the verification process) and use the burning utility to create covers that list the contents. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
... To add to what Bob and Terry have said, you don't want to open the file on the floppy directly from Windows Explorer, either, as that amounts to the same thing as opening it from Word (since Word will start and open it). Instead, you need to use Windows Explorer to copy the file to the HD (to My Documents or an appropriate subfolder within), then open it from within Word. -- 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 ... Why do you think this is a bad idea? The AutoRecovery backups are saved to the HD regardless of the location of the file itself, and the more often they are made (up to a point), the better. -- 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 ... 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 Susanne, A very relevant link, the contents of which I am still studying. Other advice is getting me there slowly and is very much appreciated. Just one point at the moment: I have 'Save AutoRecover info every 10 minutes' enabled and I am not sure that this is a good idea yet for the likes of myself and my wife, who I am helping. What are your thoughts on that please? Thanks, Emrys Davies. Suzanne It was something I read somewhere as to the merits of AutoRecover and I just needed reassurance, which is what you have given me. Another point which is fooling me somewhat: I know that I must not save directly to a floppy from Word or open it directly from Word. I accept that, but if I attempt to open a floppy indirectly from Windows Explorer I do not have access to 'Files of type' which is such a useful tool when trying to ascertain which files are held on a floppy. I note that WordPad is limited in that respect. Would you advise me on that aspect please as this is totally new ground for me? Regards, Emrys Davies. Suzanne, You have made that so clear. Now, having done exactly what you have outlined, I take it that from within Word I can now open the file saved in My Documents and at the same time safely use the 'Files of type' menu, which prompted me to ask my question. Thanks, EmrysDavies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
Exactly.
-- 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 ... To add to what Bob and Terry have said, you don't want to open the file on the floppy directly from Windows Explorer, either, as that amounts to the same thing as opening it from Word (since Word will start and open it). Instead, you need to use Windows Explorer to copy the file to the HD (to My Documents or an appropriate subfolder within), then open it from within Word. -- 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 ... Why do you think this is a bad idea? The AutoRecovery backups are saved to the HD regardless of the location of the file itself, and the more often they are made (up to a point), the better. -- 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 ... 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 Susanne, A very relevant link, the contents of which I am still studying. Other advice is getting me there slowly and is very much appreciated. Just one point at the moment: I have 'Save AutoRecover info every 10 minutes' enabled and I am not sure that this is a good idea yet for the likes of myself and my wife, who I am helping. What are your thoughts on that please? Thanks, Emrys Davies. Suzanne It was something I read somewhere as to the merits of AutoRecover and I just needed reassurance, which is what you have given me. Another point which is fooling me somewhat: I know that I must not save directly to a floppy from Word or open it directly from Word. I accept that, but if I attempt to open a floppy indirectly from Windows Explorer I do not have access to 'Files of type' which is such a useful tool when trying to ascertain which files are held on a floppy. I note that WordPad is limited in that respect. Would you advise me on that aspect please as this is totally new ground for me? Regards, Emrys Davies. Suzanne, You have made that so clear. Now, having done exactly what you have outlined, I take it that from within Word I can now open the file saved in My Documents and at the same time safely use the 'Files of type' menu, which prompted me to ask my question. Thanks, EmrysDavies. |
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Cannot open floopy disk in Word
My parents are also encountering problems opening Word files on a new Vista
PC. These files were saved on a Windows 98 PC onto floppies using Word. What is strange though is that even in the Vista Windows Explorer, the files don't even show up! If they put the floppy in the Win98 PC, the files they've saved on the Vista PC don't show up, and vice versa. I have to say that they (and me too) have often saved files to floppy as a backup (or to take on the road) from inside Word and never had problems with them. I guess we've been lucky. But what I'm stumped with is that Vista doesn't seem to even see the files that were saved on the Win98 PC. Is there something different between the 2 operating systems that is causing this? Marie |
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