Cannot...absolutely cannot delete a document from the system, once it has
been created. Only way I've been able to do it is to create the document on
the desktop...then it lets me drag it to trash. But once created within Word
it's impossible to delete it. What gives ????

Hi--

Just part of adjusting to the Mac. In Windows Word, you can use File |
Open and then delete a file that you see in the Open dialog, right? You
can't on the Mac, in *any* program, not just Word. You have to delete
from the Finder windows (go to the desktop, hit apple-N, get a Finder
window)--they look very similar to the File Open dialogs, but actually
are different. Once you open a Finder window (set it to column view),
you can browse to *any* location on the hard drive and either drag a
file to the trash or right-click and select move to trash (or I put a
Delete action in my Finder window toolbar so I can select a file and
click it to move to trash, very easy).

I think people on the Mac use the Finder more frequently than the
equivalent Windows Explorer gets used on Windows, though I'm not
entirely sure.

By the way, there are mac-specific newsgroups where you would have
gotten a faster answer. For future reference,
see here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord,
MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>


JJUWAC wrote:
> Cannot...absolutely cannot delete a document from the system, once it has
> been created. Only way I've been able to do it is to create the document on
> the desktop...then it lets me drag it to trash. But once created within Word
> it's impossible to delete it. What gives ????
>