DOC TO EXE

[Miguel]

Whenever I put a drive in my floppy, the word documents are converted in
aplication files an I cant recover that. What I can do?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Your basic problem is that you are using a floppy drive from within Word. If
you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in 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!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough
prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted
disk each time you save and don't do any editing.

--
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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Miguel]

I am not work in my floppy. When I insert the floppy in unspected form,
without open the files, that are converted to exe format, and the files are
damaged. I need to recover somme files, What I can do?

 

[Margaret Aldis]

What makes you think the files are converted to .exe format?

If you are seeing 'code' characters when you open the files (after copying
to hard disk), make sure you are not opening in "Recover text from any file"
format.

If the files mysteriously change extension or try to run after you copy them
to hard disk, then I'd guess a virus.

If you originally saved the files to floppy from Word (rather than copying
them as closed files), then of course they may well be damaged.

 

[John G]

What do you mean "Converted to exe format"?

Is the extension changed to exe or
do you think it is exe becausee there are unknown characters in the file
when you open it with Wordpad or some such?