Moving from Word 2000 to Word 2002

[Fiona MF]

Forgive me if this is not the correct newsgroup - I'm new to posting in such
a wonderful array of groups.
I have been driven up the pole this afternoon in what seemed like a simple
job. My husband, a writer, has been using Word 2000 running on ME. Today we
finally got round to commissioning his new machine - Windows XP and Word
2002. We took a copy of the document he was working on on Word 2000 on a
floppy put it into the new machine, Word 2002 opened it (and thankfully all
footnotes etc were fine). For various reasons we then put the floppy back
into the old machine and couldn't open the file "The document name or path is
not valid" nor could we reopen it on the 2002 version of Word.
Although I have opened the file in Notepad, and therefore can access the
data, we are interested to know whether (and how) we can share Word documents
between the 2 machines ?
Many many thanks

Fiona MF

 

[Jay Freedman]

Don't ever open, edit, or save a document directly from Word to or from a
floppy disk. Using Windows Explorer, copy the file from the floppy onto the
hard drive and use it from there.

It sounds like the original of the document is still on the old computer.
Start over with that.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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