Accessing/opening database on floppy to save it on hard drive

[Melissa]

I'm creating a Mail Merge database in Word and started it
on one computer on a floppy disk, then finished it on
another; the second computer automatically saved it to
the floppy without giving me an option of saving it on
the (second) hard drive. Both computers seem to be using
the same edition of Word.

On an older computer a couple of years ago, the database
was simply a Word "table" that could be opened
independently and edited without being part of a Mail
Merge project. When I try to open this file directly from
the A drive (it has a "mdb" file designation, I think) I
get scary error messages. If I send it to "My Documents"
on the second computer, I still can't open it. Any idea
what's going on, and how I can get it saved to the hard
drive on computer No. 2? Thanks.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Melissa,

Never a good idea to work directly with a floppy in Word.
For anything

If you view this file in Windows Explorer, can you
right-click it and choose COPY? And then can you go to
another folder (My Documents, for example), right click in
an empty part of the right-hand window, and use Paste?

And now can you "talk to it" using Open Data Source from
within Word?

If you can't what kinds of messsages are you getting (the EXACT
wording, please!)

I'm creating a Mail Merge database in Word and started it
on one computer on a floppy disk, then finished it on
another; the second computer automatically saved it to
the floppy without giving me an option of saving it on
the (second) hard drive. Both computers seem to be using
the same edition of Word.

On an older computer a couple of years ago, the database
was simply a Word "table" that could be opened
independently and edited without being part of a Mail
Merge project. When I try to open this file directly from
the A drive (it has a "mdb" file designation, I think) I
get scary error messages. If I send it to "My Documents"
on the second computer, I still can't open it. Any idea
what's going on, and how I can get it saved to the hard
drive on computer No. 2?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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