Word 2000 unnecessarily accessing floppy drive

[Shiva_42]

MS-Word 2000 unnecessarily accessing floppy.

Have some documents for Word 2000 on a Netware Server (3.12). Every time we
try to open any of these, the floppy drive is unnecessarily accessed causing
a delay. The document is NOT on the floppy, nor are any of it's included
resources. The document does go ahead and open, but only after this
unexpected delay.

It may very well be; however, that these documents were at one time on
floppy disks... no way for me to know for certain. This happens on ALL
workstations, not just some of them, and always on the same documents, but
not ALL documents, so this appears to be a document related problem, not a
workstation or registry issue...

What causes this, and how can I fix it?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you open a document, Word may be looking for its attached template. If
that template was ever on a floppy...

 

[Shiva_42]

It's certainly possible. I believe some of these documents were originally
created by another user on floppy, then transfered to this server. How do I
resolve this? Is this an editable attribute?

Thanks for any advice...

Steve

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, you can attach a different template through Tools | Templates and
Add-ins. Your best bet is to attach your own Normal.dot, making sure that
"Automatically update document styles" is *not* checked.

 

[Shiva_42]

Thanks Suzanne... this really helped. Once I looked at that setting it
seemed really simple, but I hadn't noticed it before. Curiously, I had asked
this question on 7 other technical forums, including two from Microsoft, and
got no helpful responses at all until yours.

I'm in your debt, thank you so much for the time and advice... I had almost
given up on this issue. Have a great day!

Steve

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm glad I could help.