deleting word files stored in word

[sjwachter]

It sounds simple, but it's not. I want to go through all my documents
stored in Word - throw some out, organize others in files. But there
is no obvious way to do this. Can somebody please walk me through how
to toss out old files stored in Word?
Much appreciated.
Sarah Wachter

 

[little_creature]

It sounds simple, but it's not. I want to go through all my documents
stored in Word - throw some out, organize others in files. But there
is no obvious way to do this. Can somebody please walk me through how
to toss out old files stored in Word?
Much appreciated.
Sarah Wachter

Heloo Sarah,
I'm not sure I fully get you, just want to ask you want to trash some
ofyour word documents? If so drag and drop these you want to delete
into the trash and they are gone. Then just enpty the trash and they
are gone forever.

if you have a lot of different files types in your folder - navigate
to finder - push that button with 4 lines to swith to list wiew and
click on that header where it is written KIND. This will show the
files in that folder according to the file kind they are so you will
see all your word documents following each other so you can easily go
throught.
Hope this helps,
If not post back

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Sarah:

Well, it may be obvious to those two, but it isn't to us, right?

The bit they left out is "Word does not store any documents inside itself.
All of your Word documents are stored inside your Hard Disk, and you need to
use the Finder in OS X to sort them out."

When you are working in Word, it shows you a "View" of your hard disk by
calling on the Finder to open a "window" into the disk for you. But that's
only a window, not a "door way", so you can look but not delete

Use the Finder itself to delete documents. Apple's user interface
specifications do not allow deleting of files from within an application.
That's a nasty (but very useful...) habit that the PC has, which Apple
doesn't approve of

Cheers

It sounds simple, but it's not. I want to go through all my documents
stored in Word - throw some out, organize others in files. But there
is no obvious way to do this. Can somebody please walk me through how
to toss out old files stored in Word?
Much appreciated.
Sarah Wachter

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