[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I imagine the problem can be avoided by using single-file Web pages (*.mht)?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
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my guess is that Word and Windows have some "secret handshake"

It's nothing really to do with Word - Windows has a feature that connects
these files and folders. I think it was originally meant to be more
generic, but only ever got implemented for web pages. .htm (or .html)
files are connected to similarly named _files folders by default, but this
can be switched off in the registry (...\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
NoFileFolderConnection). One point to watch is that it is
language-sensitive, so in Dutch, say, it would be a _bestanden folder.

The answer to the original question, of course, is that there isn't really
much you can do except not save so many complete web pages, and use
browser bookmarks/favourites instead - that way you won't have any of the
clutter.

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Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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FWIW, there's a setting in Word 2003 and earlier at Tools | Options |
General | Web Options | Files to "Organize supporting files in a folder."
I imagine that clearing this check box would result in the files being
stored in the same folder with the Web page (which would eliminate the
_files), but it would certainly clutter up that folder! In any case, my
guess is that Word and Windows have some "secret handshake" by which the
Web page file and supporting folder are linked.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
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Not really a Word thing (I'm guessing it's an OS feature): one thing
special about these folders is that if you delete the htm file in
Windows, the folder gets automatically deleted as well. Any idea on how
they do that? I'm guessing it must be some kind of linking as it would
seem odd to me that the simple delete command would investigate your
files. So I'm wondering if you somehow know how Word does set up those
links.

Yves

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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They are the files associated with documents saved as web pages. Save
your web pages in a separate folder from your Word documents and avoid
the clutter.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"WillIAm" wrote in message
news Not sure what they are or why they are there, but the folders with the
"_files" extension really clutter things up and make it difficult to
find the
files I am looking for. Any way to hide those, or some other method
so that
I don't have to look at these?