Suzanne
Sat Nov 29 09:46:30 CST 2003
Saving to a floppy is one of the most common causes of document corruption.
Attempting to open a document from a floppy is even more likely to corrupt
it. The document may already be unsalvageable, but your best hope is to
first copy the document from the floppy to the hard drive, then (if Word
still can't open it) use the "Recover Text from Any File" setting in the
File Open dialog. In future, tell your daughter always to save to the HD and
copy to the floppy, then copy from the floppy to the HD and open from there.
The reason for this is that Word must create temporary files in the document
folder when a document is opened. It creates an additional temp file each
time the document is saved. When the storage location is a floppy, it can
quickly be filled up. Moreover, if you inadvertently remove the floppy
before Word is finished moving data and closing all the temporary files,
you're done for.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:
http://www.mvps.org/word
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"Mary" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> >My daughter has been typing a paper and saving it to a
> >floppy disk. It will not open on my PC that uses Windows
> >2000. Her PC has Windows XP and she has also used
> Windows
> >98 at school. She has used a variety of different Word
> >applications within these operating systems. I get the
> >following error message when she tries to open the
> document
> >from the floppy disk "The document name or path is not
> >valid. Try these suggestions:
> >Check the file permissions for the document or drives.
> Use
> >the file open dialog box to locate the document. I have
> >tried everything to get the document to open and continue
> >to get this message. Any help?????? The document is
> very
> >important. Thanks.
> >.
> >
>