If you use Word's File Open dialog, set to All Word Documents, you won't see
them. Beyond that, I don't know of any way to hide them except to manually
mark them as Hidden, which won't help if you have hidden files and folders
displayed. Why not just turn off "Automatically create backup copy" if this
setting is causing a problem?
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"GB" wrote in message
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GB wrote:
I would like to hide the wbk files on my wife's computer, purely
because she opens them and then gets confused as she can't edit them
and they are not the latest version and so on. Yes, I know....
One simple solution is for word to set the hidden attribute on the
backup files when it renames them. Is there any way to do that?
Alternatively, can I at least get Word to call them all zzBackup
instead of Backup, so they end up at the bottom of the file list?
BTW, that's for word 2003.