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Old October 29th, 2007, 01:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Emrys Davies
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Default 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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Old October 29th, 2007, 02:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default 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.




  #3  
Old October 29th, 2007, 03:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Emrys Davies
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Default 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.


  #4  
Old October 29th, 2007, 03:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Terry Farrell
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Default 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.



  #5  
Old October 29th, 2007, 03:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default 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.



  #6  
Old October 29th, 2007, 03:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Stefan Blom
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Default 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.




  #7  
Old October 29th, 2007, 05:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Emrys Davies
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Posts: 22
Default 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.


  #8  
Old October 29th, 2007, 06:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
JoAnn Paules
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Default 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.



  #9  
Old October 30th, 2007, 04:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Emrys Davies
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Posts: 22
Default 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.



  #10  
Old October 30th, 2007, 04:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Emrys Davies
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Posts: 22
Default 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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