How can I save a file to a floppy disc?

[CGreene331]

I have a new Windows Vista and I don't know how to save my file to a floppy
disc. Can anyone help me?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption.

Copy to/from the hard disc and work on the document from there.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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[Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com]

Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so one
can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will copy
it to the hard drive before working on it...)

I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a
floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing?

And if this is really the case, then why is this question being asked in the
Word NG when saving to a floppy drive is really a OS-level operation?

And if we can get past all that and make some assumptions - that the OP has
a Vista machine with a floppy drive and wants to save a _Word_ document to
floppy for whatever reason from within Word - then the question still stands:
How does one save a file to a floppy drive?

The answer is the same as it would be for saving to any other location: use
Save As and select the desired destination. Of course, the exactly steps for
doing this depend on the version of Word in use and the designation of the
floppy drive, and without this information it's not possible to provide a
more exact answer.
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Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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[Graham Mayor]

It is certainly possible to have a floppy drive on a PC equipped with Vista
either internally or externally. It is the wisdom of saving to it with Word
that is at issue.

When working with Word documents you have no idea whatsoever of the size of
the document nor of the size of essential temporary files it creates in the
working folder. If the application cannot create its temporary files, the
document will be corrupted, usually without warning. For this reason it has
long been undesirable to save to floppy (or in any way work from floppy)
with Word.

Floppy can be used a a transport medium for documents that will fit, but you
should always *copy* to and from the hard drive.

See the macros at Save a backup and copy to removable media -
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm

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[Peter T. Daniels]

Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so one
can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will copy
it to the hard drive before working on it...)

I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a
floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing?

I'm using one right now. What do you do when an old-fashioned person
gives you something on a floppy disk?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I try to find a computer with a floppy drive then transfer it over to a
flash drive. Then I teach the person who put it on the floppy about the
merits of using flash drives.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so
one
can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will
copy
it to the hard drive before working on it...)

I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a
floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing?

I'm using one right now. What do you do when an old-fashioned person
gives you something on a floppy disk?

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

So far I've lost four flash drives ... ok, so three of them were in
the same tiny plastic bag that one of them came in ...

I try to find a computer with a floppy drive then transfer it over to a
flash drive. Then I teach the person who put it on the floppy about the
merits of using flash drives.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Fair enough. But what if one wants to save the file to a floppy disk so
one
can transfer the file to another computer? (Where, of course, one will
copy
it to the hard drive before working on it...)

I think the more pertinent point is that the OP has a Vista machine with a
floppy drive. Do they even make such a thing?

I'm using one right now. What do you do when an old-fashioned person
gives you something on a floppy disk?

 

[Tom Willett]

Ask in a Vista newsgroup?

:I have a new Windows Vista and I don't know how to save my file to a floppy
: disc. Can anyone help me?

 

[JR Hester]

Graham,

thanks for the point about those temporary files. I have read many manty
posts over teh months about NOT working directly on file on a flash drive.
This is the first one that gives specific details of WHY! I have been
fortunate in NOT losing any data or corrupting files that I do edit directly
from/to my flash drive.

Being aware of the issue was a forewarning and I always keep a safety copy
on teh hard disk.

Thanks for sharing the WHY as well as the warning.

Thank you