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re: Trying to open a MS Word (7.1) document on a Winodws 95 formatted Floppy in Windows 98
Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 2:07 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Malcolm Fowler
(1520 messages posted)
if you format it you will lose the file. In Explorer can the file be identified?
What happens if you double click it?
On Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 4:55 pm, Ben wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I have an old IBM Thinkpad laptop which only has a floppy drive and with Windows
>95 on it. I recently formatted a floppy disk on this and saved an MS Word document
>(Version 7.1) on it. I have tried to open the floppy disk on another PC with Windows
>98 that uses MS Word 97 which will not allow me to do this. Instead it asks me if
>I want to format the disk. If I do this I am scared I will lose my saved word document
>which is formatted in a different version. I hope I have provided enough info. Is
>there any way around this predicament please.
>
>Many thanks
>Ben
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