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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. |
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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. |
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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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Also, if you get in the habit of saving your documents in a regular
folder instead of the desktop, the backups will also be in that folder and you won't have to see their icons unless you go looking for them with Explorer. Go to Tools Options File Locations and set the Documents item to your preferred location (out of the box, the program defaults to "My Documents"). You can put shortcuts to commonly used documents on the desktop, regardless of where the documents themselves are stored. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:47:19 -0600, "Charles Kenyon" wrote: 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Thank you all!
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