Solved Question about Microsoft Word.

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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.
 
Palehood said:
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.
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Never mind for the first problem. That one has been solved. Now there's only the problem with the files being saved after I deleted them.
 
I believe the recent is as it says - a list of recently opened files, as other files are opened then the older files should disappear. It’s a placeholder/shortcut to the original files & isn’t saving them in a different place.
 
As Bastet has said, the recently opened items are not copies of your actual documents, just a shortcut link to where it used to live.
They are stored here; C:\Users\<your account>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
Or here; C:\Users\<your account>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office\Recent
 
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