If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
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 |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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. |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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. |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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 |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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 |
#16
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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 |
#17
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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 |
#18
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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 |
#19
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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. |
#20
|
|||
|
|||
How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?
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! |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Word should catalog misspelled words to study. | rndthought | General Discussion | 38 | January 23rd, 2008 11:53 PM |
hard space between words. | Sandy L | General Discussion | 7 | May 5th, 2006 08:25 PM |
In Word, how do I surpress headers and footers on page 2 | Bill | General Discussion | 1 | December 15th, 2005 06:13 PM |
How to change merge forms from Word Perfect to Microsoft Word | Charles Kenyon | General Discussion | 1 | December 30th, 2004 03:35 PM |
Bookmarks are not retained during Mail Merge | Latha | Mailmerge | 22 | June 16th, 2004 08:53 PM |