Deleting groups of files

[Lydia]

I downloaded the documents from the disc that came with
the Microsoft Word 2002 CORE Manual to see what they
were. 117 documents were downloaded to My Documents. I
decided I was not ready for them and attempted to delete
them. Using the Shift key, I highlighted a group of
files, pressed Delete on my keyboard and said Yes. I did
this through all the documents only to find that instead
of deleting, the documents were duplicated. Then,
thinking I had used the wrong method to delete, I
repeated the highlighting but this time, I right clicked
and pressed Delete from the menu and continued this
through the documents, but again I found that the
documents were being duplicated instead of being deleted.
I then tried the same thing using the Control key, but
the same thing happened. I now have about 75 copies of
each of 117 documents. What am I doing wrong and how do
I get rid of these documents? HELP PLEASE!!!!

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

I downloaded the documents from the disc that came with
the Microsoft Word 2002 CORE Manual to see what they
were. 117 documents were downloaded to My Documents. I
decided I was not ready for them and attempted to delete
them. Using the Shift key, I highlighted a group of
files, pressed Delete on my keyboard and said Yes. I did
this through all the documents only to find that instead
of deleting, the documents were duplicated. Then,
thinking I had used the wrong method to delete, I
repeated the highlighting but this time, I right clicked
and pressed Delete from the menu and continued this
through the documents, but again I found that the
documents were being duplicated instead of being deleted.
I then tried the same thing using the Control key, but
the same thing happened. I now have about 75 copies of
each of 117 documents. What am I doing wrong and how do
I get rid of these documents? HELP PLEASE!!!!

My first thought is that your mouse may have slipped and copied the
documents. This is actually a Windows Explorer issue and not specific to
Word.

Mike Williams - Office MVP http://www.mvps.org/faq/

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[Bill]

-----Original Message-----
I downloaded the documents from the disc that came with
the Microsoft Word 2002 CORE Manual to see what they
were. 117 documents were downloaded to My Documents. I
decided I was not ready for them and attempted to delete
them. Using the Shift key, I highlighted a group of
files, pressed Delete on my keyboard and said Yes. I did
this through all the documents only to find that instead
of deleting, the documents were duplicated. Then,
thinking I had used the wrong method to delete, I
repeated the highlighting but this time, I right clicked
and pressed Delete from the menu and continued this
through the documents, but again I found that the
documents were being duplicated instead of being deleted.
I then tried the same thing using the Control key, but
the same thing happened. I now have about 75 copies of
each of 117 documents. What am I doing wrong and how do
I get rid of these documents? HELP PLEASE!!!!
.
I had the same problem occur with my computer. Did you

ever get your problem solved? Let me know.

Thanks