Vista Tutorial - Office 2000 Professional and Windows Vista

I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium edition.
I installed Office 2000 professional. At first there did not seem to
be an issue with this, however one problem has developed. When using a
USB flash drive and attempting to edit a Word document on the USB
flash drive, Word will not save the document back on the drive and
gives a message that the drive/file is in use by another process. I
can save the file to the regular hard disk and copy it over to the USB
Flash drive, but that is only a temporary solution.

Has anyone experienced this problem and is there a fix for this issue?

<lbevon@nngov.com> wrote in message
news:1174321230.435733.229530@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium edition.
> I installed Office 2000 professional. At first there did not seem to
> be an issue with this, however one problem has developed. When using a
> USB flash drive and attempting to edit a Word document on the USB
> flash drive, Word will not save the document back on the drive and
> gives a message that the drive/file is in use by another process. I
> can save the file to the regular hard disk and copy it over to the USB
> Flash drive, but that is only a temporary solution.
>
> Has anyone experienced this problem and is there a fix for this issue?
>


As a result of your message, I tried to save, edit and save again to a USB
flash drive.

I experienced no problems. Using Vista Home Premium edition.

Lou

It could be possible that the file is read protected. Open word, create a
test document, save it to your USB drive. Close word. Open word again,
open the test document and make a change. Then try to save it. See what
happens.


<lbevon@nngov.com> wrote in message
news:1174321230.435733.229530@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium edition.
> I installed Office 2000 professional. At first there did not seem to
> be an issue with this, however one problem has developed. When using a
> USB flash drive and attempting to edit a Word document on the USB
> flash drive, Word will not save the document back on the drive and
> gives a message that the drive/file is in use by another process. I
> can save the file to the regular hard disk and copy it over to the USB
> Flash drive, but that is only a temporary solution.
>
> Has anyone experienced this problem and is there a fix for this issue?
>