Whenever you work in a Word document, hidden temporary files are created in
the working folder. The desktop is simply a folder. You can choose to
display (or not) hidden files from the file explorer of your operating
system.
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Saving word docs to desktop results in hidden icons in Word 2007. How to
get
word doc icons to show?