Hi Betty,
Are you talking about program or document disks?
If it's a CDR containing Word documents you may
need to copy them to your hard drive first as
Word needs to be able to create temporary files
where the open file exists.
===========I can open all CD-RW discs but cannot open any CD-R on my office SP1 >>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

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