delete a saved document

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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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"golfchick" wrote in message
...
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have printed and will save these
instructions.

"Stan Brown" wrote:

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.

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/...U_Entries.html

"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.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

Oh boy, whatever happened to opposite click mouse and delete when the box
opened. .................Convince me I'm impressed with this program....

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

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

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Enjoy,
Tony


"golfchick" wrote in message
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How do I delete a saved document in Word

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.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Olivia Staubach" .(no spam0 wrote in message
...
Oh boy, whatever happened to opposite click mouse and delete when the box
opened. .................Convince me I'm impressed with this program....

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

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

--
Enjoy,
Tony


"golfchick" wrote in message
...
How do I delete a saved document in Word

You are so right, it is impossible to delete a document name. Why does
Microsoft make WOrd more difficult with each upgrade?

"Olivia Staubach" wrote:

Oh boy, whatever happened to opposite click mouse and delete when the box
opened. .................Convince me I'm impressed with this program....

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

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

--
Enjoy,
Tony


"golfchick" wrote in message
...
How do I delete a saved document in Word

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

"golfchick" wrote:

How do I delete a saved document in Word

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

--

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



"Kele" wrote in message
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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

"golfchick" wrote:

How do I delete a saved document in Word