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!

Hi Debbie,

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

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<<"debbie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4F458E43-A261-448D-9734-(E-Mail Removed)...
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 ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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?

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

> Hi Debbie,
>
> What version of Windows are you using and what are the steps you're following?
>
> ==========
> <<"debbie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4F458E43-A261-448D-9734-(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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 ?:-)
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
>
>

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

"debbie" wrote:

> 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?
>
> "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
>
> > Hi Debbie,
> >
> > What version of Windows are you using and what are the steps you're following?
> >
> > ==========
> > <<"debbie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4F458E43-A261-448D-9734-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > 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 ?:-)
> > MS Office System Products MVP
> >
> > *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
> >
> >
> >

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?

"JR Hester" wrote:

> Try deleting your unwanted copies from Windows explorer or your My Computer
> applets. Normally you cannot delete a "file" from within the Word™
> application.
>
> "debbie" wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> > "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Debbie,
> > >
> > > What version of Windows are you using and what are the steps you're following?
> > >
> > > ==========
> > > <<"debbie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4F458E43-A261-448D-9734-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > 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 ?:-)
> > > MS Office System Products MVP
> > >
> > > *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
> > >
> > >
> > >