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monners - 27 May 2005 22:14 GMT

i've typed up a few esaay that, onced saved they become encrypted and are
unreadable. please help!!!!

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Graham Mayor - 28 May 2005 06:00 GMT

Are you saving them to floppy? Never ever read from, write to or print from
floppy with Word. This is the most certain method of ensuring document
corruption. Copy to the hard disc and work on the document from there.
This is equally relevant to other removable media such as CDRW.

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> i've typed up a few esaay that, onced saved they become encrypted and
> are unreadable. please help!!!!

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JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 28 May 2005 07:12 GMT

I have found that people who have (or are used to) older computers with
teeny hard disks are more likely to do that. And it's darned difficult to
convince them to do otherwise.

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> Are you saving them to floppy? Never ever read from, write to or print
> from
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>> i've typed up a few esaay that, onced saved they become encrypted and
>> are unreadable. please help!!!!

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Graham Mayor - 28 May 2005 11:44 GMT

First time they lose a week's work they will be convinced quickly enough :)

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> I have found that people who have (or are used to) older computers
> with teeny hard disks are more likely to do that. And it's darned
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>>> i've typed up a few esaay that, onced saved they become encrypted
>>> and are unreadable. please help!!!!

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Amedee Van Gasse - 30 May 2005 08:42 GMT

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] shared this with us in
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> I have found that people who have (or are used to) older computers
> with teeny hard disks are more likely to do that. And it's darned
> difficult to convince them to do otherwise.

Thank $DEITY for modern puters without legacy hardware like floppy
drives or serial ports.

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JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 30 May 2005 17:30 GMT

In that case yes but I can all but guarantee that if and when I get my next
system, I will still have a floppy drive. It may have to be external but I
have too many floppies and still know people who do not have writers on
their systems.

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> Thank $DEITY for modern puters without legacy hardware like floppy
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Amedee Van Gasse - 31 May 2005 07:55 GMT

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] shared this with us in
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> In that case yes but I can all but guarantee that if and when I get
> my next system, I will still have a floppy drive. It may have to be
> external but I have too many floppies and still know people who do
> not have writers on their systems.

Good for you, but at least you know what you are doing. Some people
have to be protected from themselves, for their own mental sanity.

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JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 31 May 2005 13:30 GMT

Ain't that the truth!?

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> Good for you, but at least you know what you are doing. Some people
> have to be protected from themselves, for their own mental sanity.

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monners - 28 May 2005 22:39 GMT

thank you for responding, when i save, i just go into file and save as. could
you please tell me what to do using idiot proof instructions? thanks

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> i've typed up a few esaay that, onced saved they become encrypted and are
> unreadable. please help!!!!

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JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 28 May 2005 22:50 GMT

Save the file to your C drive instead of the A drive.

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> thank you for responding, when i save, i just go into file and save as.
> could
> you please tell me what to do using idiot proof instructions? thanks
>
>> i've typed up a few esaay that, onced saved they become encrypted and are
>> unreadable. please help!!!!

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