saving files to cd

[Debbie Short]

I would like to save documents to a cd but whenever I save as drive F or G it
tells me that I do not have access to that folder to contact my
administrator. This is my home computer. What do I need to do to accomplish
this? Deb S

 

[Jay Freedman]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:23:00 -0700, Debbie Short <Debbie

I would like to save documents to a cd but whenever I save as drive F or G it
tells me that I do not have access to that folder to contact my
administrator. This is my home computer. What do I need to do to accomplish
this? Deb S

Save to the hard drive, and then use CD burning software to copy the file to the
CD.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Never use Word with any type of removable media (CD, floppy, Flash drive,
etc.)

As Jay says, always save to the local HDD. Copy to from removable media or
in the case of CDR or DVDR, burn to the media. But note that because it is
burnt to a CD/DVD, it will be assigned the Read only attribute. You will
need to manually change that when you try to open the document for editing
again.

 

[tedmi]

To clarify what Terry said: You cannot turn off the read-only attribute for a
file on an optical drive. When you edit the doc that has been burned to CD,
first copy it to the local HD, then use the Properties dialog to turn off its
read-only attribute.