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Palehood

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I'm currently using Microsoft Word 2016 in a secondary PC. Whenever I delete a Word document/file ,it ends up getting saved in C:Users/User/Recent(and who knows which other sections) on my PC. I tried to locate this folder/section named "Recent" using a word search so I could manually delete all the previous files I had deleted but couldn't locate it. I manually clicked on the C:Users/User/ folder but still couldn't find it. It's not really a big problem but if anyone could tell me how to directly locate it, I would be grateful.
Also,is there any way where I can stop Microsoft Word from saving extra copies of files I have deleted? I still want Microsoft Word to autosave my work now and then but not keep copies if I have deleted them. Tried going to Options>Save but couldn't find anything relevant.