delete a saved document

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With the Delete key perhaps.

What you may really be asking is how to find it in order to delete it. If
that's the case you have probably saved it to a default location so try this
....

Make sure you do not have the saved document open
Create a new document in Word and go to save it (press Ctrl+N followed by
Ctrl+S)
This will give you a Save Dialog listing of the default location showing all
the Word documents in it
Find the file you saved
Click on it to Select it
Press the Delete key to delete it
Press Cancel so you don't save the new document
Close the new document you opened just for this exercise
 
Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word
that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or
just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they
don't show up when I follow your instructions.
 
Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:50:27 -0800 from golfchick
Maybe I'm not providing the correct info. I have several documents in Word
that were either downloads from an email that parked themselves in Word or
just not needed. When I click on "file" these documents show up. But they
don't show up when I follow your instructions.
Click to expand...

If I understand you now, your question is actually how you delete a
document from the recently-used list in the File menu.

Annoying, isn't it? You'd think if you click on a document in that
list, and it doesn't exist, Word would be smart enough to stop
showing it to you, but nooooooo.

When I started writing this response, I thought there was no way at
all to delete an entry short of editing the Registry. But I got
interested and did some considerable amount of Googling. (You may
thank me now. :-)

From Allen Wyatt's Word Tips, at
http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/T0669_Deleting_MRU_Entries.html
Click to expand...

"To remove a file name from the MRU list, press Alt+Ctrl+- (that last
part is a dash, right next to the 0 key, not the minus key on the
keypad). The mouse pointer changes into a thick bar. Use the bar
pointer to click on the File menu, then click on the MRU entry you
wish to remove from the list. The entry is removed, and the mouse
pointer changes back to normal."

This is the same way you can customize menus in general by deleting
entries.
 
Exactly how would I do that? Could you walk me through it or direct to me
somewhere that explains it.
 
Clearly you don't know where they are.

They are held in the Registry and beyond the reach of Windows Explorer.
 
And note that Allen got that tip by reading it repeatedly in these NGs.

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If you know where they are, you can delete them with Windows Explorer. That
would be the easiest.

Wally S
 
Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:06:26 -0800 from golfchick
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have printed and will save these
instructions.
Click to expand...

Happy to help.

Do bookmark Wyatt's site. There are lots of helpful tips there --
meaning no disrespect to several frequent posters here who also have
very helpful sites, no one site can cover everything.
 
Be very careful when using Alt+Ctrl+- . It will delete any item from a
menu.

And, when you have done that, select Customize from the Tools menu, then go
to the Options tab and press the "Reset menus and toolbars" button.

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Oh boy, whatever happened to opposite click mouse and delete when the box
opened. .................Convince me I'm impressed with this program....
 
You can certainly still delete files in the same way. Tony was addressing
the issue of a user not being able to find the saved document in the first
place.
 
You are so right, it is impossible to delete a document name. Why does
Microsoft make WOrd more difficult with each upgrade?
 
I have deleted the document, but the name of the document still shows up in
recent document list, this is what I need to delete.

thanks
 
That's something completely different. Which version of Word do you have?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
 
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