error code when I try and save/open doc to external hard drive.

[algrabow]

I am having a lot of trouble with this program on the last two versions of
windows. I had vista and now have converted to windows 7. I am using office
2007. I was having a error message pop saying "do you want to allow the
following program to make changes to the computer". I believe I fixed that by
unchecking a box in a compatability tab. The next day when I tried to save an
error message said "Word could not create the word file check the temp
enviroment variable". I changed the HKey "hopefully and correctly", now I
don't have that message pop up and I can save documents on the C: drive, but
when I want to save them on my external hard drive it says that the file does
not exist. I cannot open any word docs that have been saved on my external
hard drive and the save options are C:\Users\Joshua
Grabow\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\ for both Autorecovery and default.
C:\Users\Joshua Grabow\Documents\SharePoint Drafts\ is for servers draft
location

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You should not save to external media. Save to the hard disk and then use
Windows explorer to copy the file to the external drive.

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Hope this helps,

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