delete a document from list that was saved to floppy disc

[Guest]

i need to delete a document from the list in Word,even though i have saved it
to floppy disc. the document cannot be opened,as saved to floppy,but would
like to get rid if the titles of the old documents.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you are referring to the MRU list at the bottom of the File menu, press
Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen, then click on the filename. Be very careful with the use of
this shortcut, as it will remove ANY menu item you click on.

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

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[Graham Mayor]

Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption.

Copy to the hard disc and work on the document from there.

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[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

And by following those rules, you will not have unwanted file names in your
MRU list.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

So that you will have heard it the magical three times: If you want to be
able to use your documents, when working within Word, act as if your
removable media drives do not exist! (This applies to floppy drives,
CDRW/CDR, flash drives or DVDR drives as well as any other kind of removable
media drives.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on removable media
Print a document on a removable media
Edit a document on a removable media
Save a document to a removable media (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on removable media drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries, schools) this is a
tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new
formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing.
--
Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide




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