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| Thread ID: 21634 | 2002-06-30 08:00:00 | Saving files in Word | Lougher (765) | Press F1 |
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| 58593 | 2002-06-30 08:00:00 | I've been using and saving documents in Word all day, but I've just opened a new document and tried to save it and the following message comes up: 'The folder :/Documents and Settings/Faye/My Documents/Editing Work/Community Response Plans/Completed/Whanganui/Taranaki - Anna' isn't accessible. The folder may be located on an unavailable volume or protected with a password' I have never seen this message before and would really appreciate help in getting past it! I tried shutting down Word and starting again, but no joy. I don't have any passwords on my computer and I don't know what 'unavailable volume' refers to. The document was a one page letter. Some help and advice would really be appreciated as I desperately need to save this document. Thanks in advance. | Lougher (765) | ||
| 58594 | 2002-06-30 08:08:00 | Its not obvious unless we know what the file name is, as the listing you give could just be folders and not the file name? Is the file 'Taranaki - Anna' and if so have you tried without the "-" (Gee you nest files deep!) Does the file name contain any punctuation? (/,\,+,* etc?) as Word can get thrown and interpret a folder when there isn't one. |
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| 58595 | 2002-06-30 09:16:00 | Thanks Godfather, tried a few different things while waiting for an answer (which was prompt and helpful!) and your last sentence says it all - it had / in it which Word obviously didn't like as part of a file name! I ended up calling it Whanganui - Anna and it was happy with that! (I hadn't put " " in, I just did that to accentuate what I had called it.) I should have realised what I'd done (so used to using a Mac!) as the main file was called Whanganui-Taranaki but why couldn't the 'help' have told me it contained a character I couldn't use? (It may look like I bury my work deep, but I'm currently editing some community response plans for CYF which I save in a folder called Editing Work. Inside was a folder called Community Response Plans, and inside that were Drafts and Completed folders. Once the edits were done, I moved them from Drafts to Completed and also saved a file of notes with each - with the ending - Anna which is who they are for!) Thanks, I'll file this one away for future reference! | Lougher (765) | ||
| 58596 | 2002-06-30 09:37:00 | Great Faye, pleased its fixed. Re the nesting, I don't use the default locations and have my primary folders straight off the C: drive (C:data/subfolders) as with ISO9000 systems some require file locations autoupdated in the footer. That would make for a very full footer! |
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| 58597 | 2002-06-30 12:33:00 | Thanks Godfather (very Mafiosa!). I'm afraid you lost me a bit with your latest response, I'm fairly new to this! You may be able to help me with something else though (pretty please) - I'm having trouble with saving the emailed documents from CYF - when I try to save any changes made to them, it says something to do with Word having saved the document in Normal (I could be wrong here) and do I wish to save the global template? There was a post regarding this a while ago which I looked at, but it says to find normal.dot and delete it, then a default one will be recreated by Word. Trouble is, I don't know where to find normal.dot and when I do a search for it, my computer says it can't find it. I think I'm going to have to resort to a Word for Dummies book, but any help would be appreciated! And how come emailed comes up on the spell check - duh! | Lougher (765) | ||
| 58598 | 2002-06-30 21:24:00 | Hi Faye The template "normal.dot" location depends on your operating system. It looks like you are running XP by the folder structure, so look in: faye/documents and settings/application data/microsoft/templates... (assuming you have an identity on the machine as faye...) The CYF documents may have macros embedded or have fundamental changes to the default formatting that you use, so you are asked if you want to make that your new default. Not a big problem, just say no if you dont want the global changes to affect all your non-cyf docs. As you are probably using word defaults anyway, deleting (or renaming) the normal.dot is ok. I suspect that the system thinks normal.dot is a system file, and when you use search you will need to select the option to search all files else it wont tell you anything... Re the name, it has a very long history, but not for those activities! |
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