Saving Word docs to a CD on a Mac

[Scott R]

Help -- I seem to be having the same problem as the other message re
saving a document to a disk. I have a Powerbook, and the drop down
menus do not seem to allow writing to a CD once they have been saved
on the hard drive (say, in the documents folder). What am I doing
wrong?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Don't use Save As. Copy the file from the HD to the CD using your CD-writing
software (or Windows Explorer if that is possible).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Scott R]

Another dumb question then: are you saying I need to purchase a CD
writing program specifically to simply save documents to a CD? (This is
a standard configuration Powerbook G4 (itunes, idvd, imovie, etc.) --
seems like that's not correct for this type of data, no? When I try to
drag a copy of a document file to the CD desktop, it just tells me that
the file can't be copied.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have a CD writer, it probably came with software. For example, my CD
burner came with Roxio Easy CD Creator. But Macs may operate differently, so
if you don't get a sensible answer here, you might want to post your
question in microsoft.public.mac.office.word.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Dayo Mitchell]

Roxio Toast is a common CD-burning program for Macs, I believe the Lite
version is free. If your powerbook came with a burner, it might already be
on there. But Apple didn't send you a CD burner that you can't use, so try
Mac Help re burning a CD for data backup. In fact, look under "Creating a
CD". Apple has their own Disk Burner utility but I have never tested
whether it works for anything other than iTunes.

Keep in mind that CD drives do *not* operate like floppies, the
aforementioned help topic is quite good on this issue (in my OS 9).

On this and other Mac-specific questions involving software interaction
rather than directly manipulating Word, the microsoft.public.mac.office.*
groups do have rather more Mac experts reading and posting.

DM