For simple transfer of text to CD, I use Record Now!. It's free, available for downloading. Then I do a Save As to access the CD.

That's what I've done in the past to save chunks of my documents to transfer to a new computer as needed.

The next time it will be even simpler. I recently bought an external hard drive (plug and play Passport at Costco) so when the time comes I'll just plug it into the new computer and voila! and there I am. Don't know why I didn't do it before- it takes a long time to copy and paste everything ono CDs that you want to save. And externals are not that expensive- mine was $90 and this is Alaska; it's probably cheaper elsewhere.