~$

[Cheese]

"Pretty simple question I think but I was wondering why you find "presumed"
copies of documents in folders with the beginning name of ~$____? For
example, the document name is ElecStimforWounds.doc and the "copy" is named
~$ecsStimforWounds.doc. The document is not currently open. How should these
be managed or ignored?
Also why are the temp documents created? For example, WRL2201.tmp. Can
this be deleted?

 

[BruceM]

Again, best to ask in a Word group. Having said that, Word must have
crashed, or the computer was shut down incorrectly while documents were
open. The ~ file is created when a document is opened, and is deleted
automatically when the document is closed correctly. Temp files are created
for a variety of reasons, and for a variety of reasons are not always
deleted when they should be. For more information about handling temporary
files:
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm