Deleting Temporary Files

[wendy]

I seem to be getting a lot of temporary files in my Word
document files. They are not deleting when I exit word.
Is there somewhere I can turn off this feature? These
are not .bak files but seem to be some sort of recovery
files? They are ususally named ~WRL(a four digit
number).tmp OR they are ~$(a portion of the original
file name).doc. They often only contain 1KB of
information and when I try to open them will only have
some piece of formatting in them, no text.

Has anyone any idea what I should do? I searched through
word help for "temporary files" and "deleting temporary
files" and got nothing useful.

wendy

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Wendy

For info on how to get rid of them, see http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

For info on why they got there in the first place, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;211632

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia