Make the wizard for writing to a CD easy to use

[dmrichmarrs]

I'm trying to save some files to a CD RW out of Word. Talk about screwed up!
That has to be the most difficult thing to work with since drum brakes.
Have you ever tried to change the pads on drum brakes? Ask your dad. It's
frustrating. I ought to be able to just go to File, Save As, E:, enter a
file name and go for it. OH, NO!!! I'm told that the CD is not ready for
use. How the #### do I get it ready for use? It's just a CD, for crying out
loud. It doesn't have any switches or knobs. There is nothing to choose.
So I send the file to the E drive. Now it saves as a read only file. I
don't want a read only file. I just want a regular old vanilla file that I
CAN SAVE OR WRITE OVER OR DO WHAT I WANT TO DO WITHOUT SOME TECHIE WHO THINKS
HE HAS A GREAT IDEA FORCING ME INTO A BOX I CAN'T GET OUT OF BECAUSE I HAVE
NO IDEA WHY IT DOES THAT OR HOW TO OVERRIDE IT. See, the instructions on the
help menu DON'T WORK. Once it's on there you can't remove the read only
attribute because...guess what...IT'S A READ ONLY FILE.

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[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Drum brakes don't have pads.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

You don't save to a CD, you save to your hard drive and then write the file
to the CD.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Rich,

It can be frustrating trying to use a CD-RW or DVD-RW from Windows Programs. Working with Word or other Office documents from
'removable media' such as diskettes or plastic plates (CD/DVD) is something not recommended in some cases because of slowness, in
others because of the way the media is used for temporary files by the apps as well.

The Microsoft Office apps rely on Windows to provide the actual file saving mechanism and aren't equipped to directly do the CD-RW
creation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905431/en-us?spid=2512

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I'm trying to save some files to a CD RW out of Word. Talk about screwed up!
That has to be the most difficult thing to work with since drum brakes.
Have you ever tried to change the pads on drum brakes? Ask your dad. It's
frustrating. I ought to be able to just go to File, Save As, E:, enter a
file name and go for it. OH, NO!!! I'm told that the CD is not ready for
use. How the #### do I get it ready for use? It's just a CD, for crying out
loud. It doesn't have any switches or knobs. There is nothing to choose.
So I send the file to the E drive. Now it saves as a read only file. I
don't want a read only file. I just want a regular old vanilla file that I
CAN SAVE OR WRITE OVER OR DO WHAT I WANT TO DO WITHOUT SOME TECHIE WHO THINKS
HE HAS A GREAT IDEA FORCING ME INTO A BOX I CAN'T GET OUT OF BECAUSE I HAVE
NO IDEA WHY IT DOES THAT OR HOW TO OVERRIDE IT. See, the instructions on the
help menu DON'T WORK. Once it's on there you can't remove the read only
attribute because...guess what...IT'S A READ ONLY FILE. >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
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