AFAIK once something is written to a CD-RW disk it is on that disk until the
disk is reformatted! You can delete it but it still takes up space that will
not be reused. I stand by my statement that you end up with document
corruption writing directly to a CD-R or CD-RW from Word. You may be correct
that this is because of impatience by the user rather than anything inherent
in the use of the CD; but it does happen enough to warrant the advice to not
try it.
--
Charles Kenyon
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
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See also the MVP FAQ:
http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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I have to disagree with you I'm afraid, re RW drives. It's truly not a good
idea to open and edit a document on a CD, but not because Word trashes them.
It's because of the excess time involved and the creation/deletion of
temporary files, back ground saves, etc., that create very very long wait
times, often fooling users in to thinking the machine has locked up,
especially when the Page File maxes out.
Trashing files that way only happens with impatient people, or when a
system is set up improperly. I often do it to just change a word or
sentence or two, but to do any amount of work, you do indeed really need to
bring it to the hard drive to work on it. However, there is no problem with
using Save As to save the final document to the CD AS LONG AS you don't want
to keep a local copy on the hard drive.
It is best, as mentioned, to work on the file on the hard drive, save it
there, and THEN Save As or copy it to, the CDRW.
Now, since a CDR cannot support the deletion of anything on it, mean ing
it's write once only, it gets pretty messy and impractical to edit a file on
the CD. In fact, it's impossible and Word will complain loudly, especially
when the many files being created have filled the CD, the older temp files
still exist, and there's no more room left because of all the multiple
files already created in tryin to edit it there. You can only add to, not
edit or delete anything on a non-rewritable CD.
It's always best to copy to the hard drive, edit, then copy back to CD or
CDRW. The packet writing software, or lack thereof, can also create
confusion, and lots of it.
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