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Old 05-20-2023, 07:44 PM
Mikmmm Mikmmm is offline Trying to open Word from shared drive Windows 10 Trying to open Word from shared drive Office 2007
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I'm new at this forum and just hope it's ok (did not know I had to use algebra to register! and thought they wanted random question and answers....)
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I tried to share my ext drive on the share network...W10 both PC and not able to open words showing from the shared pc.
Reading here I then used a doc. from my internal drive with not better result....
Then I used my Belkin link between the 2 pc and still get the same bad result.
Words open on PC 2 but remains blank. Obviously this is very frustrating as it took me ages to network share then with my link playing with different to create a new words file but no go??
I hope I'm not interferring with this thread as I thought it a similar situation...
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Old 05-20-2023, 08:05 PM
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I split your question from this older thread. I think it is not really related.


If I understand your question, you have the program Word on a drive and want to open it from that drive from a different computer by sharing the drive.
Word is a program.
It must be installed on each computer where you want to use it.


You can use the online version of Word without an installation.
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Old 05-20-2023, 10:50 PM
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Thank you for your quick reply
I'll try again to state my situation.
I bought a new PC but I'm still using the old one where I have most things in it included an external hard drive. (Having quite a few pgr that would not work on the new one)
I searched about accessing that ext. HD from the new PC and found the Network sharing instructions.
Eventually I saw my external HD (but only the 'folder' I nominated??)
Then I saw some Word (2007) documents I saved on that ext. HD folder and tried to open them on my new pc. (later on I copied that file on my new pc) In both cases Word (also installed on my new pc and working well) would not show the document, only word's blue screen.
I read this thread and understood that I could not 'import', 'share' word documents if they weren't saved on the pc internal drive...
So I created a new doc. , saved it on my pc's internal drive. But could not read it on the network as it was only created for my external drive's folder...
Next I used my Belkin transfer cable between the 2 PCs and copied both files from my external drive and also my internal drive into my new pc but the result was still negative and similar.
Add on:
I just sent myself an email with the file in it and opened it on my new pc. |
The same thing happened again although I could see the content of the file on my email. I also could open it with google sheet.
I downloaded it from my email and still could not open it just as it happened in all the other situations.
Only word seems to be that way I could open .pdf, Jpeg. file with no problem from network sharing.

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Old 05-21-2023, 12:18 PM
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OK.
I now understand that you are talking about Word .docx files.
Such a file, created in Word, can be read using Word on any other comptuter.


Tho Belkin file transfer cable should be addressed on their site. No one here is likely to have any special knowledge on its use.


Word's blue screen?
I am unfamiliar with this, under this name.


How are you trying to open the file?
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Old 05-21-2023, 04:54 PM
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Thank you again for your reply.
What I referred to blue screen is just Word opening with nothing in it at all, hence a blue screen only.
However it seems I solved my problem...I suscribed to Office 365 and all my transfereed tests are opening ok!
So it seems that W2007 is not compatible for some unknown reason. Belkin Cable, memory stick Network sharing and email were a no go!
Anyway thank you for trying to help.
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Old 05-22-2023, 10:52 AM
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I am glad you found a way.

Word 2007 was never that good a product. Microsoft does not claim that it works on Windows 11.

I hope you are happy with the version that comes with Microsoft 365 it has many new features, some of which I think are actually useful.
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