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How do I delete a saved document in Word
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With the Delete key perhaps.
What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this .... Make sure you do not have the saved document open Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by Ctrl+S) This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all the Word documents in it Find the file you saved Click on it to Select it Press the Delete key to delete it Press Cancel so you don't save the new document Close the new document you opened just for this exercise -- Enjoy, Tony "golfchick" wrote in message ... How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word
that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they don't show up when I follow your instructions. "Tony Jollans" wrote: With the Delete key perhaps. What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this .... Make sure you do not have the saved document open Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by Ctrl+S) This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all the Word documents in it Find the file you saved Click on it to Select it Press the Delete key to delete it Press Cancel so you don't save the new document Close the new document you opened just for this exercise -- Enjoy, Tony "golfchick" wrote in message ... How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:50:27 -0800 from golfchick
: Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they don't show up when I follow your instructions. If I understand you now, your question is actually how you delete a document from the recently-used list in the File menu. Annoying, isn't it? You'd think if you click on a document in that list, and it doesn't exist, Word would be smart enough to stop showing it to you, but nooooooo. When I started writing this response, I thought there was no way at all to delete an entry short of editing the Registry. But I got interested and did some considerable amount of Googling. (You may thank me now. :-) From Allen Wyatt's Word Tips, at http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/...U_Entries.html "To remove a file name from the MRU list, press Alt+Ctrl+- (that last part is a dash, right next to the 0 key, not the minus key on the keypad). The mouse pointer changes into a thick bar. Use the bar pointer to click on the File menu, then click on the MRU entry you wish to remove from the list. The entry is removed, and the mouse pointer changes back to normal." This is the same way you can customize menus in general by deleting entries. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Exactly how would I do that? Could you walk me through it or direct to me
somewhere that explains it. "Wally S" wrote: If you know where they are, you can delete them with Windows Explorer. That would be the easiest. Wally S "golfchick" wrote in message ... Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they don't show up when I follow your instructions. "Tony Jollans" wrote: With the Delete key perhaps. What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this .... Make sure you do not have the saved document open Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by Ctrl+S) This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all the Word documents in it Find the file you saved Click on it to Select it Press the Delete key to delete it Press Cancel so you don't save the new document Close the new document you opened just for this exercise -- Enjoy, Tony "golfchick" wrote in message ... How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have printed and will save these
instructions. "Stan Brown" wrote: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:50:27 -0800 from golfchick : Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they don't show up when I follow your instructions. If I understand you now, your question is actually how you delete a document from the recently-used list in the File menu. Annoying, isn't it? You'd think if you click on a document in that list, and it doesn't exist, Word would be smart enough to stop showing it to you, but nooooooo. When I started writing this response, I thought there was no way at all to delete an entry short of editing the Registry. But I got interested and did some considerable amount of Googling. (You may thank me now. :-) From Allen Wyatt's Word Tips, at http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/...U_Entries.html "To remove a file name from the MRU list, press Alt+Ctrl+- (that last part is a dash, right next to the 0 key, not the minus key on the keypad). The mouse pointer changes into a thick bar. Use the bar pointer to click on the File menu, then click on the MRU entry you wish to remove from the list. The entry is removed, and the mouse pointer changes back to normal." This is the same way you can customize menus in general by deleting entries. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Clearly you don't know where they are.
They are held in the Registry and beyond the reach of Windows Explorer. -- Enjoy, Tony "Wally S" wrote in message ... If you know where they are, you can delete them with Windows Explorer. That would be the easiest. Wally S "golfchick" wrote in message ... Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they don't show up when I follow your instructions. "Tony Jollans" wrote: With the Delete key perhaps. What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this .... Make sure you do not have the saved document open Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by Ctrl+S) This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all the Word documents in it Find the file you saved Click on it to Select it Press the Delete key to delete it Press Cancel so you don't save the new document Close the new document you opened just for this exercise -- Enjoy, Tony "golfchick" wrote in message ... How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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And note that Allen got that tip by reading it repeatedly in these NGs.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:50:27 -0800 from golfchick : Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they don't show up when I follow your instructions. If I understand you now, your question is actually how you delete a document from the recently-used list in the File menu. Annoying, isn't it? You'd think if you click on a document in that list, and it doesn't exist, Word would be smart enough to stop showing it to you, but nooooooo. When I started writing this response, I thought there was no way at all to delete an entry short of editing the Registry. But I got interested and did some considerable amount of Googling. (You may thank me now. :-) From Allen Wyatt's Word Tips, at http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/...U_Entries.html "To remove a file name from the MRU list, press Alt+Ctrl+- (that last part is a dash, right next to the 0 key, not the minus key on the keypad). The mouse pointer changes into a thick bar. Use the bar pointer to click on the File menu, then click on the MRU entry you wish to remove from the list. The entry is removed, and the mouse pointer changes back to normal." This is the same way you can customize menus in general by deleting entries. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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If you know where they are, you can delete them with Windows Explorer. That
would be the easiest. Wally S "golfchick" wrote in message ... Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they don't show up when I follow your instructions. "Tony Jollans" wrote: With the Delete key perhaps. What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this .... Make sure you do not have the saved document open Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by Ctrl+S) This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all the Word documents in it Find the file you saved Click on it to Select it Press the Delete key to delete it Press Cancel so you don't save the new document Close the new document you opened just for this exercise -- Enjoy, Tony "golfchick" wrote in message ... How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:06:26 -0800 from golfchick
: "Stan Brown" wrote: From Allen Wyatt's Word Tips, at http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/...U_Entries.html "To remove a file name from the MRU list, press Alt+Ctrl+- (that last part is a dash, right next to the 0 key, not the minus key on the keypad). The mouse pointer changes into a thick bar. Use the bar pointer to click on the File menu, then click on the MRU entry you wish to remove from the list. The entry is removed, and the mouse pointer changes back to normal." Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have printed and will save these instructions. Happy to help. Do bookmark Wyatt's site. There are lots of helpful tips there -- meaning no disrespect to several frequent posters here who also have very helpful sites, no one site can cover everything. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Be very careful when using Alt+Ctrl+- . It will delete any item from a
menu. And, when you have done that, select Customize from the Tools menu, then go to the Options tab and press the "Reset menus and toolbars" button. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "golfchick" wrote in message ... Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have printed and will save these instructions. "Stan Brown" wrote: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:50:27 -0800 from golfchick : Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they don't show up when I follow your instructions. If I understand you now, your question is actually how you delete a document from the recently-used list in the File menu. Annoying, isn't it? You'd think if you click on a document in that list, and it doesn't exist, Word would be smart enough to stop showing it to you, but nooooooo. When I started writing this response, I thought there was no way at all to delete an entry short of editing the Registry. But I got interested and did some considerable amount of Googling. (You may thank me now. :-) From Allen Wyatt's Word Tips, at http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/...U_Entries.html "To remove a file name from the MRU list, press Alt+Ctrl+- (that last part is a dash, right next to the 0 key, not the minus key on the keypad). The mouse pointer changes into a thick bar. Use the bar pointer to click on the File menu, then click on the MRU entry you wish to remove from the list. The entry is removed, and the mouse pointer changes back to normal." This is the same way you can customize menus in general by deleting entries. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Oh boy, whatever happened to opposite click mouse and delete when the box
opened. .................Convince me I'm impressed with this program.... "Tony Jollans" wrote: With the Delete key perhaps. What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this .... Make sure you do not have the saved document open Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by Ctrl+S) This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all the Word documents in it Find the file you saved Click on it to Select it Press the Delete key to delete it Press Cancel so you don't save the new document Close the new document you opened just for this exercise -- Enjoy, Tony "golfchick" wrote in message ... How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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You can certainly still delete files in the same way. Tony was addressing
the issue of a user not being able to find the saved document in the first place. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Olivia Staubach" .(no spam0 wrote in message ... Oh boy, whatever happened to opposite click mouse and delete when the box opened. .................Convince me I'm impressed with this program.... "Tony Jollans" wrote: With the Delete key perhaps. What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this .... Make sure you do not have the saved document open Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by Ctrl+S) This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all the Word documents in it Find the file you saved Click on it to Select it Press the Delete key to delete it Press Cancel so you don't save the new document Close the new document you opened just for this exercise -- Enjoy, Tony "golfchick" wrote in message ... How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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You are so right, it is impossible to delete a document name. Why does
Microsoft make WOrd more difficult with each upgrade? "Olivia Staubach" wrote: Oh boy, whatever happened to opposite click mouse and delete when the box opened. .................Convince me I'm impressed with this program.... "Tony Jollans" wrote: With the Delete key perhaps. What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this .... Make sure you do not have the saved document open Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by Ctrl+S) This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all the Word documents in it Find the file you saved Click on it to Select it Press the Delete key to delete it Press Cancel so you don't save the new document Close the new document you opened just for this exercise -- Enjoy, Tony "golfchick" wrote in message ... How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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I have deleted the document, but the name of the document still shows up in
recent document list, this is what I need to delete. thanks "golfchick" wrote: How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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That's something completely different. Which version of Word do you have?
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Kele" wrote in message ... I have deleted the document, but the name of the document still shows up in recent document list, this is what I need to delete. thanks "golfchick" wrote: How do I delete a saved document in Word |
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