Rod
Fri Mar 17 00:43:26 CST 2006
Thanks Charles
That's not the answer I had hoped for. Ah well.
Rod
"Charles Kenyon" wrote:
> Straight answer is you cannot. CDs, even RW-CDs are not suitable for editing
> Word documents.
>
> However, your friend can copy them onto a hard drive, edit them there, and
> perhaps save them back to the same CD. The last part depends on the
> CD-burning software being used.
>
> The following is from my canned answer to people who have lost documents
> when trying to save them to CDs or floppies or USB drives. Substitute CD for
> the word floppy as you read:
>
> If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within 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!
>
> --
> Charles Kenyon
>
> Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word
>
> Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
> Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide
>
> See also the MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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> "Rod" <Rod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:77115DE6-1DEB-4DDB-A540-C6005515C611@microsoft.com...
> >I save Word files onto a cd. My friend wants to edit them and re-save.
> >Can
> > someone tell me an easy way to do this. Please remember I am still a
> > computer beginner - so not too technical answers please.
>
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