[Ed]

I'm using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I had been working on my document,
hitting Save occasionally, for about 2 hours. When I peeked into the folder
containing the document, there were about a dozen temp files, besides the
one of the original file. Is this normal behavior? Am I heading fro
disaster? Is there a setting or two I should change?

Ed

[Margaret Aldis]

It's not generally pathological - Word seems to save these temp files for
"undo" purposes - you tend to get a lot if you are running macros or doing
other rather complex tasks.

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"Ed" wrote in message
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I'm using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I had been working on my document,
hitting Save occasionally, for about 2 hours. When I peeked into the
folder containing the document, there were about a dozen temp files,
besides the one of the original file. Is this normal behavior? Am I
heading fro disaster? Is there a setting or two I should change?

Ed

[Jay Freedman]

It's probably normal -- see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 for a
description. If they don't all go away when you close down Word, see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm for the cleanup
procedure.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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Ed wrote:
I'm using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I had been working on my document,
hitting Save occasionally, for about 2 hours. When I peeked into the
folder containing the document, there were about a dozen temp files,
besides the one of the original file. Is this normal behavior? Am I
heading fro disaster? Is there a setting or two I should change?

Ed

[Ed]

Thanks, Jay. I appreciate the link to let me see what's happening. I guess
I've never really looked that good at the temp files before, but seeing that
many caught me by surprise. They all did disappear when I closed the file,
so I assume all is well. (Or at least working as designed - this ~is~ Word,
after all!)

Ed

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
It's probably normal -- see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 for
a description. If they don't all go away when you close down Word, see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm for the cleanup
procedure.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.

Ed wrote:
I'm using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I had been working on my document,
hitting Save occasionally, for about 2 hours. When I peeked into the
folder containing the document, there were about a dozen temp files,
besides the one of the original file. Is this normal behavior? Am I
heading fro disaster? Is there a setting or two I should change?

Ed