How To Download A Word Document Onto A Flash Drive

Check to ensure your word document has been saved onto the memory stick.

How to download a word document onto a flash drive. Click once on the drive to highlight it then click the save button to save the word document onto the drive. Now move the my documents folder from the hard drive to the flash drive 1 press windows e again to open another computer dialog. When prompted to select a save location you ll need to click your flash drive s name in the left hand menu and then click save. Follow the remaining steps but substitute the word move for copy. When you re done your computer dialog box should look something like this.

Select the removable flash drive or memory card to which you want to copy the files and then select the copy button. The flash drive is typically drive letter e or f 5. Select your usb flash drive. Insert the flash drive into a usb port on your computer. In the menu that pops up select copy place your mouse cursor over a section of blank space within the usb thumb drive window and right click again.

In the copy items window under the this pc heading locate the flash drive or memory card the drive will not be local disk c where windows 10 resides. Click the save in drop down menu at the top of the save as dialog box. 3 double click on the drive letter representing your thumb drive and create a new folder called my documents. Right click on the file you want to copy then select copy 4. On a mac you may click choose instead of save.

In the menu that pops up select paste the files you copied to the clipboard earlier will be copied onto the usb flash drive. Navigate to and click the flash drive. With your microsoft word document open click the file tab and select save as 3. Re open the autoplay window where applicable and click the open folder to view files link. If you have a file open in a program like microsoft word or photoshop you can save it directly to the usb drive without having to drag it between explorer windows.

Doing so will cause the file to download directly onto your flash drive.