Word 2003 shutting down slowly/not properly

[Jason V]

I save invoice templates on a floppy disk and open all of the templates I
need at once. When I am done, I close the window I was using and then reopen
the file from one of the other windows.

Lately it has been going extemely slowly whereas in the past it has been
almost immediate. When I click on the red X to close the window, the light
comes on for the disk drive and you can hear it spinning. This used to happen
for at most 2 seconds. Now its closer to 10-20 seconds. And most times the
window will not close....just the file....leaving a gray background (as if
you just clicked the black x below the red X). Sometimes this window freezes
up, and I have to close it using ALT-CNTL-DEL.

If I have a template open, and I change things on the template, then go to
try and reopen the original template, nothing happens. In the past it used to
ask if you want to revert to the saved file.

I have already run the repair and detect tool, however that has not fixed a
thing.

Please help!

 

[Graham Mayor]

Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption.
Copy to the hard disc and work on the document from there.

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[Jason V]

I don't understand how I am doing any of these things through a Floppy Disk
though. I open Word through my hard drive. Its just accessing a file from my
Floppy disk. Am I really reading, writing, printing from the Floppy?

In all my years of computer use, I've never encountered a corrupted
disk/file. And this is the first time it has ever been this "slow" when
closing the program. I checked my Virus Software (Norton 360 Version 3.0) and
that was not the problem. It has to be something with the computer probably
and not Word itself.

Any more ideas?

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you have not encountered a corrupt floppy disc when open Word documents
or saving Word documents directly to it, then consider yourself extremely
fortunate. If Word cannot create its temporary files on the floppy medium,
through insufficient disc space, then the disc will be corrupted and the
documents the disc contained lost. Accessing a file on a floppy disc
includes reading and printing (opening the file in Word) and writing (saving
the file from Word).

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