[WisconsinSteve]

How do I delete a single document? I want to get rid of it completely. Thanks

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Close the document. Select it in a Windows Explorer window and press
Shift+Delete.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"WisconsinSteve" wrote in message
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How do I delete a single document? I want to get rid of it completely.
Thanks

[Kristoffer Andreas Berg]

Deleting the document in Windows Explorer only marks the hard disk space it
occupied as free. It does not actually delete the file. Some programs can
recover documents deleted by Windows Explorer.

To get rid of the file, you have to use a program which overwrites the space
it occupied with other data. There are many programs which will do this. You
can do a Google search for "secure deletion", but I cannot be certain that
all the programs actually do what they say (how would I know if I did not
write them myself?).

Some deletion tools are free, some cost. There is a tool called TuneUp
Shredder, which is included with TuneUp Utilities. See http://www.tune-up.com
for a free trial (the full program suite costs $40). You can also have a look
at http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/download.php to download Eraser, which is free.

Windows may also write parts of your document to the paging file. It may be
possible that this is not overwritten by other data.

I have heard that even if you overwrite the file, it may be possible for
special programs to recover the data. It may therefore be hard to completely
get rid of a file.

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Kristoffer Andreas Berg
Programmer on a hobby basis
http://home.online.no/~gunnarab


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Close the document. Select it in a Windows Explorer window and press
Shift+Delete.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"WisconsinSteve" wrote in message
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How do I delete a single document? I want to get rid of it completely.
Thanks