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by jackytech

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Word, for safe reason, will regenerate a document and place it in temp. How can I stop this or isolate to things I don't want regenerated. I went through tools already... I am losing too much space with research documents.

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by magetower

Depending on which version of Word you are using you should be able to disable the automatic saving of your documents. Look in the Tools/Options. There should be a Save tab that outlines your save options (at least there is in 2000, can't remember for 95/97). You can disable 'Always create backup copy', 'Allow fast saves', and Allow background saves' however if your program dumps in the middle of editing you may not be able to recover.

If you also look on the File Locations tab you can specify where to default save documents and where AutoRecover files are kept. This will allow you to specify another drive with more space if you have one.

Hope this helps...

by pxttocyob

You can't stop it from generating temp files. It was made this way to create more overhead and take up more space and resources. It does many things which are not needed or helpful.

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