when deleting a document, multiple copies result

[debbie]

When attempting to delete a document in Word 2002, instead of being deleted,
a copy is made. When trying to delete the copy, more copies are made and so
on. I now have 159 copies of some documents! I even have copies of copies!
HELP!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Debbie,

What version of Windows are you using and what are the steps you're following?

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When attempting to delete a document in Word 2002, instead of being deleted,
a copy is made. When trying to delete the copy, more copies are made and so
on. I now have 159 copies of some documents! I even have copies of copies!
HELP!>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[debbie]

I am using XP Home. I have tried a couple different methods to delete the
extra documents. One way is to open Word and when the list of documents
appears, I Right click on the document I wish to delete and select "delete".
It looks like it is deleted until I open Word the next time and there it is
again, with additional copies of it. Another way that I have tried to do it
is by going through "My Computer" to "My Documents" and selecting the ones I
want to delete from the list or icons, depending on which view I have chosen.
If I do one at a time it appears to work for awhile, then all of a sudden
they're back with more copies while I am still in the process of trying to
delete other documents. I have also tried holding down the ctrl key so I can
select a bunch at a time since I now have hundreds of extra copies to delete,
but when tried that tonight I got strange error messages. The first one:
"Error Copying File or Folder. Cannot copy Copy 3 or MUSIC I WANT TO KNOW
YOU: It is being used by another person or program. Close any program that
might be using the file and try again." Obviously I wasn't wanting MORE
copies, so I don't know what this is about! The other message I got while
selecting multiple copies with the ctrl key down was: "Choosing to open 239
items at once may take a long time and cause your computer to respond slowly.
Do you want to continue?" Here again, I'm clueless because I wasn't trying
to open anything, so why this message?

 

[JR Hester]

Try deleting your unwanted copies from Windows explorer or your My Computer
applets. Normally you cannot delete a "file" from within the Wordâ„¢
application.

 

[debbie]

Okay, I'll try that. Can you walk me through it? But why do you think it
was generating so many copies when I tried to delete before?