Re: Need advice on MS Word (if anyone can stand it)

[Dorothy Day day@xxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Eric Van Tassel wrote:

> My copy of MSW 6.0 has no documentation, and my knowledge of its workings
> is wholly empirical. The soi-disant Help menus are usually spectacularly
> unhelpful.
>
> (2) When I've finished working on a file and save it, it produces a *.BAK
> duplicate. Fine; I do need it in case I've screwed something up (which I do
> even more often than in XyW). But if I then switch to File Manager and try
> to delete the *.BAK file, I'm told it's illegal to do so - presumably
> because Mr Gates is a sentimental old cuss and doesn't want me to forsake
> my roots?
>   In fact, is there ANY straightforward way to erase/delete a file while
> working within MSW? The only way I can find on any of Mr Gates's cute
> little menus is to close MSW completely, go to File Manager (or to XyWrite,
> indeed), delete the file(s), and reopen MSW -- which is daft.
>

You don't have to close Word, but you will have to close the file.
While any Microsoft application has a file open, its hooks are sunk
deeply into all related files, including *.BAK copies. Try even copying
a data file for Access or Excel while it's open in the application--you
have to close the file before you can do *anything* with it.

	Dorothy


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