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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"SeaSouth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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202F280-0AC6-4B67-BE6C-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I use Microsoft office 2000 all word doc. automatically creates a backup. I
> know i turned this on at some point, but now i can't remember how i did it
> or
> how to turn it off. Seemed like a good idea at the time,but it only
> creates a
> lot of unnecessary files that do not reflect any changes made to the
> original
> so it's useless to me.
> How do I turn it off??
>