Re: ghost-like backup files on desktop

I am new to this group and hope I may joint in this particular discussion.

I have also started to have the problem with "ghost" files - as Steve calls
them. This only started a couple of months ago. I store my documents in a
My Documents folder and when I open one to work on it, I now notice that the
file name is repeated at the beginning of the list of files with a squiggle
in front of it. The squiggle obliterates the first letter or so. This entry
disappears when I close and later reopen Word.

Why has this just started to happen - and how can I stop it?

Hope someone can help.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> These are temp files and are unavoidable. They will be far less troublesome
> if you store your documents somewhere other than on the desktop, which is
> really not a good place to store them, anyway. If you want a specific
> document to be easily accessible, store it in My Documents (or another
> documents folder) and put a shortcut to it on the desktop. You might also
> want to check out Word's Work menu; see
> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WorkMenu.htm.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
> Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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>
> "steve" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:E853C34E-A53F-4EBB-A331-00077B5F4730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Actually, on further inspection, only the first ghost file starts with
> ~$ -
> > all the others are in the format ~WRL followed by a number. The icon in
> > these cases is not a Word one, but one of those 'undefined' icons.
> >
> > "steve" wrote:
> >
> > > Whenever I work on a document for a long period of time I seem to
> accumulate
> > > dozens of copies of the file, all starting with ~$ and followed by part
> of
> > > the file name.
> > >
> > > I assume these are some sort of back up copies, but they really clutter
> my
> > > desktop and make switching between applications and documents tricky.
> > >
> > > Is there any way of not showing them?
> > >
> > > Many thanks
> > >
> > > Steve
>
>
.

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