How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?

[Otis Abernathy]

I have typed an important document in Word 2000 and when I click on the disk
in the task bar or in the file "pull down" window which has the floppy disk
image, nothing happens...it does not save even though I have an empty disk in
the tower.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Sarah,

It's only fair! Good advice delivered in a nice manner.

I use floppies all the time. Writers give me a floppy with their article
on it, I open it and import it. I had my computers set up so I could
access Linda's HD and import articles from it. I thought I had a virus
and in the attempt to remove it, I screwed up something. :-(

Mike

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

You should *never* do that. It should be saved to the hard drive then copied
over to the "floopy".

 

[Ed Bennett]

The only thing it doesn't support (and I've no idea why) is
Unicode-only characters (e.g. the degree symbol and fractions).

The Degree symbol is ASCII 0176, and 0188, 0189, 0190 are ¼, ½, ¾
respectively. i.e. NOT Unicode-only.

HTH

 

[Mike Koewler]

Sarah,

Old habits die hard! Some replies in-line:

What can I say, Michael? I'm 30 this year, I must be mellowing in my old
age... I do wish you, JoAnn, Don, Mary and Brian would stop top-posting,
though! ;o) <eg>

I'm not quite as old as Don but I'm on the downside of 51. To think back
in my college days, none of us actually expected to live to be 30.

Mind you, it's a nice day here - the sun is singing, the birds are shining -
and the cat's just been sick on the hall carpet. It's brass monkeys though
(my BBC Weather widget is telling me it's currently -1C which I can't
believe!)

We've got a forecast of 5 inches of snow this weekend. I don't like it,
but if it has to happen, the weekend is the best time for it. We've had
a really mild winter, except for one stint in what was still technically
autumn. Every day in January was warmer than the norm and a couple of
days it was 30 degrees above average. So far, February has been below
average.

Macs haven't had floppies since time immemorial. The last Mac that had a
floppy drive was the Beige G3 (discontinued in 1998, IIRC). They've not had
one since.

And you're still married?! ;o) Or are you one of these weird blokes who feels
he has to name his computers...?

Still very happily married. When we started the paper, she was typing
between 20-30 articles a week. Now, it's about eight or nine. Most of
them are short, except for the council meetings she covers. If I get a
long article typed on paper, I scan it.

You're a prime candidate for a Mac you are. You wouldn't have to worry
about viruses then! I love not hearing the hard drive churning away every
morning as AVG does its daily scan. No spyware either.

AVG scans mine at night, while I'm comfortably asleep!

How's Shaun, by the way...? Where is he at the moment?

Actually, he just got out of the Navy on the 25th of January. They let
him out early because they are way overstaffed at his job. He's been
looking for work as a chef in a restaurant.

Warm wishes here also, Sarah. Hope life treats you kindly.

Mike

 

[Mike Koewler]

Don,

yeah, I have a couple of writers who like to do that also. About once
every couple of months, I get a "The Disk in Drive A is not formatted.
Would you like to format it now?" error. Trust me, at some point one of
your very important files will not open.

Mike

I'm just a wild and crazy guy. I have no problems saving to or retrieving
from the floppy, RAM drive or my network hard drive. Being Don Corleone's
nephew has its privileges.<G>

Ciao, bella mia.

donato

You should *never* do that. It should be saved to the hard drive then
copied over to the "floopy".

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

File
Save as

Then select the A drive and give the file a name and OK.


--
Don
Vancouver USA


message
I have typed an important document in Word 2000 and when I click on the
disk
in the task bar or in the file "pull down" window which has the floppy
disk
image, nothing happens...it does not save even though I have an empty
disk in
the tower.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Eddie, for an Oxford alumnus you can be remarkably dense sometimes...

Alumnus? Not yet!

;o) What is my computer...? What is the OS...? And what is that OS
built on...?

Can't say I've studied UNIX that much.

ASCII seems to be a Windoze thing these days - Tiger does not appear
to have higher ASCII support. Don't believe me...? I'll send you a
screen grab.

But it's still not a Unicode-only character P

Under the Mac OS you don't hold down Alt and key in a number on the
numerical keypad to enter an ASCII character. You have to drag and
drop it from the Character Palette.

Another fantastic Mac innovation.

Under OS X they are Unicode only and my news-reader does not support
them.

Poor thing. Even OE, the worst of all newsreaders, supports them, and yet
yours doesn't.

Have you ever used a Mac, Eddie...? No...? Then don't tell a Mac user
they're wrong.

Excuse me? I've been using Macs in the Physics practical lab since the
beginning of last term.

There's a difference between "Unicode-only" and "Unicode-only on my
platform".

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Sweetie,

I've been a top poster for about 10 year now. I actually prefer it. It
drives me nuts to have to scroll down until I read a response. It's like
having to read the last third of Chapter 1 before I can get to Chapter 2.
;-)

 

[Granny 3.1]

The correct term is a travel drive. not a pen drive where are you from? the
UK?

 

[Granny 3.1]

Nice manner? Where do you kids get your manners from no a days the MTV?

 

[Granny 3.1]

As long as the disk is properly formatted and the file is under 1.44 mb's it
should save fine, even in publisher.

Sorry for the rudness of the forum. It is public and any dog, rat, or
monkey can get in.

Granny 3.1

 

[Granny 3.1]

Get a hotel or met her at her whorehouse I'm sure you can afford the tupence
it would cost.

 

[Granny 3.1]

A MAC user is wrong for two reasons, one they aren't an expert on Windows
products and Two MAC's went the way of hot pants and platform shoes, join the
21st century would you. Ed knows more in his pinkie finger than you do in
that whole (shall we step on a cliff and call it a ) brain. Who did you
borrow it from anyway? Frankenstein's aborted child?

Way to go ED!!!!!!!

 

[Granny 3.1]

Jeez, you can't even spell WINDOWS right. Windoz? What drugs are you on
sweetie? Perhaps you shouldn't take them anymore. They seem to be fogging
your borrowed brain.

 

[Granny 3.1]

Probably came from a MAC. Mac's aren't compatible with Windows. As we all
know some floppies even saved properly can become corrupted. It's rare but
it happens. And even then 99% of the time it the user who saved its fault.

Toodles

Don,

yeah, I have a couple of writers who like to do that also. About once
every couple of months, I get a "The Disk in Drive A is not formatted.
Would you like to format it now?" error. Trust me, at some point one of
your very important files will not open.

Mike

I'm just a wild and crazy guy. I have no problems saving to or retrieving
from the floppy, RAM drive or my network hard drive. Being Don Corleone's
nephew has its privileges.<G>

Ciao, bella mia.

donato

You should *never* do that. It should be saved to the hard drive then
copied over to the "floopy".

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




File
Save as

Then select the A drive and give the file a name and OK.


--
Don
Vancouver USA


message
I have typed an important document in Word 2000 and when I click on the
disk
in the task bar or in the file "pull down" window which has the floppy
disk
image, nothing happens...it does not save even though I have an empty
disk in
the tower.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Ed Bennett]

The correct term is a travel drive. not a pen drive where are you
from?

I've never heard it called a travel drive. I have heard the terms "USB pen
drive", "USB flash drive", "USB keyring", "USB memory key", and a couple of
others that escape me.

 

[Ed Bennett]

As long as the disk is properly formatted and the file is under 1.44
mb's it should save fine, even in publisher.

No it shouldn't.

The maximum capacity of a formatted floppy disk is ~1.38MB without disk
compression.

It has long been known and shown by people far more knowledgeable than you
that Publisher, for reasons of its own, will not always save to removeable
media correctly.

 

[Granny 3.1]

Funny, when I plug in my 2.0 gb drive it reads F:Travel Drive on My Computer.
I'd screen capture it to prove it but I don't have to prove my self. Go to
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=travel+drives
notice only the first one is called a pen drive, and it only holds 64 mbs
the rest....42 before I got tired of counting (page 4) said "Travel Drives"
perhaps someone besides you might be right. Just a thought. I own 3, I know
what they are called, I'm not that senile yet. But for you people who don't
believe copy and paste the link above and start counting.

 

[Granny 3.1]

to utter:I've never heard it called a travel drive. I have heard the terms "USB pen

drive", "USB flash drive", "USB keyring", "USB memory key", and a couple of
others that escape me."

Even on your Memorex site it discontinued the Flash drives and you'll notice
at the bottom of the page there are now 12 count 'em 12 travel drives. Man,
sonny if a old granny like me can keep up with technology terms.....there are
two sites right there and it took me all of 10 seconds to prove you
wrong...again...

 

[Granny 3.1]

3½-inch: Floppy is something of a misnomer for these disks, as they are
encased in a rigid envelope. Despite their small size, microfloppies have a
larger storage capacity than their cousins -- from 400K to 1.4MB of data. The
most common sizes for PCs are 720K (double-density) and 1.44MB
(high-density). That's from Dell.com quote your sources. You couldn't admit
being wrong about the travel drive now quote your source they went from
1.38MB to 1.44MB in the 90's