A. You're not in the correct group here.

B. As  a general rule, Word doesn't work with CDs etc. because it wants to
create its temporary files in the same folder that you save your .doc in,
and despite the fact that you're using a writable device, Word may well not
treat a CD-RW as a ?real/ writable device. But that's just a guess on my
part.

C. If you're having trouble doing things directly from Word, save the file
to a normal folder on a hard drive, then using Windows to copy the .doc to
the CD-RW. or use your e-mail client to insert the .doc as an attachment.

Peter Jamieson

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within Word, act
as if your removable media drives do not exist! (This applies to floppy
drives, CDRW/CDR, flash drives or DVDR drives as well as any other kind of
removable media drives.)
Don't use Word to:
 Open a document on removable media
 Print a document on a removable media
 Edit a document on a removable media
 Save a document to a removable media (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on removable media drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries, schools) this is a
tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new
formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing.