The last time I saw a floppy in Windows it was a: (you could get b: but that was getting rare 15 years ago.
You are using your file manager (Windows Explorer ?) so your problem is really with that software. The fact that it is a file you created in OOo is co-incidental. As I saw someone hinting a while back, have you tried using the save as command in OOo? Keith Bainbridge PO Box 324 BELMONT Vic 3216 Australia +61(0)408 522 706 kei...@akrb.name 2009/3/31 Barbara Duprey <b...@onr.com>: > L. P. Prete wrote: >> >> The document I want to copy to a floppy is a simple letter, maybe 3 or 4 >> Kbytes. I used the word "send" rather than copy to replicate the command I >> am offered when I right-click on the file name as it is listed in My >> Documents. When I right-click, one of the options given me is to "Send To" >> four or five possible places. The one I choose is the D drive where my >> floppy is waiting. It works fine for any Word file or Spreadsheet file, but >> it will not accept the text file that I prepared with OpenOffice 3. Are you >> able to copy your text files to a floppy? If so, what commands do you use? > > Ah! That's the information we were missing -- you aren't using OOo at all in > this operation. If you have the navigation pane displayed on the left, you > can just drag the file onto the device and drop it. On Vista, if you don't > have the Navigation pane, select Organize > Layout > Navigation pane, then > expand the Computer entry to see the devices. The Send operation in the > context menu probably relies on recognizing the kind of object it is dealing > with, and the operating system doesn't really understand any of the Open > Document formats. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
