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

Sarah,

Old habits die hard! Some replies in-line:

Margolotta wrote:

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

Warmest wishes,

Margo

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

Don Schmidt wrote:

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


"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
...

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

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Don Schmidt" Don Retired wrote in message
...

File
Save as

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


--
Don
Vancouver USA


"Otis Abernathy" Otis wrote in
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.

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:23:48 +0000, Ed Bennett wrote
(in article ):

Margolotta was very recently
heard to utter:
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



Eddie, for an Oxford alumnus you can be remarkably dense sometimes... ;o)
What is my computer...? What is the OS...? And what is that OS built on...?

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.

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.

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

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

Margolotta was very recently
heard to utter:
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".

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

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.
;-)


--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Margolotta" wrote in message
. net...
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:14:00 +0000, Mike Koewler wrote
(in article ):

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

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

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!)

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...?

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.

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

Warmest wishes,

Margo

Granny 3.1 was very recently heard
to utter:
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 - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Granny 3.1 was very recently heard
to utter:
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.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Ed,

I wonder if it's a AC line voltage cause. Spike, brown out, or some other
anomaly. When you think that files are sent via, phone lines, radio, light
wave, digital and analog carrier around the world without problems, up jumps
the devil when saving from one end of the computer box to the other end of
the computer box.

Do you know of any instances where there was a corruption of a file when the
computer was protected by an UPS?


--
Don
Vancouver USA


"Ed Bennett" wrote in message
...
Granny 3.1 was very recently heard
to utter:
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.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:35:27 +0000, Granny 3.1 wrote
(in article ):

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.


The misspelling was deliberate, dear. I wish I did have Dr. Frankenstein's
brain - he was a genius (madder than a roomful of hatters, but a genius).

Now, do **** off. Don't let the trapdoor hit you on the way down and watch
out for the crocodiles.

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:02:26 +0000, Granny 3.1 wrote
(in article ):

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.


Monkey?! Don't get ideas above your station!