opening up a CD or disc on another computer

[nana]

Whenever I save a document onto either a CD or a disc, it can not be opened on anyone else's computer. The only thing that shows is symbols. Can anyone help?

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Never open, work on, or save a Word document to CD or removable disk - it
will corrupt files as you see. Work on the hard disk, then when you have
saved the file copy it to the removable media.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk

Whenever I save a document onto either a CD or a disc, it can not be

opened on anyone else's computer. The only thing that shows is symbols. Can
anyone help?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as
well.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on a floppy
Print a document on a floppy
Edit a document on a floppy
Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough
prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted
disk each time you save and don't do any editing.

Whenever I save a document onto either a CD or a disc, it can not be

opened on anyone else's computer. The only thing that shows is symbols. Can
anyone help?