Thanks for trying to help me, Kevin. Yes I am using Windows 7 Home Premium Current capacity-872 GB free of 919 Yes If I start a new document I can save, change, copy, paste etc. No I have not tried saving the files with a new file name. Don't know how to do that? Have not tried the DOC file way either, don't know how to do that The presentations are coming from my old XP computer I send myself a copy via email, open them, work on them but the changes can't be saved. I would be grateful for just the text. I don't know how to open anything in notepad. How do I find it? So sorry for being ignorant of these things. I'm so grateful for you taking the time. Regards Nancy -----Original Message----- From: computers-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:computers-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Ross Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:54 PM To: computers@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Ignorance brings grief Hi Nancy, Are you using Windows 7? Are you saving this to your main hard drive? Or an external drive? Or a USB drive? Does your main hard drive have enough room on it? Other than the 4 you referred to, are you able to save other Word Documents to the same hard drive folder? Have you tried saving the file with a different file name? Have you tried to save the file as a DOC file? Just a thought, but it sounds as if you may be importing something strange along with your presentations when you cut and paste. What program are the 'presentations' coming from? Do you need to import the formatting or just the text of the presentations into Word? If text only, copying the text to notepad first, then copy and paste from Notepad to Word. This will insure that only text is imported into Word. Regards, Kevin. On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Nancy <nancyml@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with some files in Microsoft Word 2010. I have some > presentations in word that I cut and pasted into the current one from > an old computer. I have done this many other times in the past two > years but am now having difficulty. The difficulty lies in the fact > that when I work on the cut and pasted document and make changes, try > to save the document with the changes when I get a message that > > says ( windows cannot save or create this file. Make sure that the > disk you want to save the file on is not full, write protected or damaged. Then (J. > Irish 101.docx) > > This has happened to 4 documents. > > Thanks for any help. > > Nancy > > > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. You can buy/sell for free on the Genealogical Materials lists. > > This list is for peer-to-peer support and discussion of computer problems incurred in genealogy research. Use caution when following any advice. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- -------- K. Ross kr5927@gmail.com :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. You can buy/sell for free on the Genealogical Materials lists. This list is for peer-to-peer support and discussion of computer problems incurred in genealogy research. Use caution when following any advice. :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message