Word General Question

[confounded]

I tried to delete a file with a strange icon. It was named;  ï€WRL3227.tmp
I got a message that the file was in use by another application or user.
Has anyone ever seen a file named like this and what is the file? I am the
only user so there were no other applications or users of the file, how did
this occur?

 

[Stefan Blom]

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632/en-us ("Description of how Word
creates temporary files").

If Word crashed, so that you have left-over temporary files, you can delete
them; see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm.

 

[Yves Dhondt]

That's a temp (clipboard) file created by Word. For more info see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632

Unless you have a specific reason to mess with them (leftover from crash,
....) you should leave the file alone. Normally, Word cleans them up when no
longer needed.

Yves