But unless you are operating on an extremely small hard drive, think twice
about turning this back off. I would guess that sometime within the next
couple of years, you'll be glad you have it turned on. You can always go in
and clean up the backup files every 6 months or so if you want.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message
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In Word, click on Tools | Options | Save | uncheck the "Always create
backup copy" box | OK.

J. Timothy wrote:

Hello"\:

I am using Word 2000, SP3, on Windows XP Home. Lately, whenever I go to
work on my word docs, after I exit I notice that an additional backup
file of the document I was just working on appears on my desktop. I
guess it's sort of nice to have a backup, but the program did not use to
do this and would like it to behave as it recently did. Thanks in
advance.