MS WORD oddity

[gord55]

Hi all... a problem with MS WORD 2000.
In the last week it's started saving a TEMP file (.tmp) of most files I open, when I open them. It saves them into the same folder as the proper file. When the .tmp file is opened, it's just gobbledegook... what's happening here?
I have XP+SP2, P4 2.8GHz, 760Mb, and McAfee VirusScan (which I'm a bit wary of). Any ideas?

Thanks, GW

 

[WoodYouLike]

In menu tools, go to options. Go to tab: save and check if any of the boxes in the save options is ticked.

 

[gord55]

Thanks for your response.
4 are checked. "allow background saves" "embed linguistic data" "save autorecover info..." "embed smart tags". Which of these should be unchecked?

 

[Gary0]

Why should it bother you ? Lacking disk space ?

In your shoes I'd try unticking one at a time and see which the .tmp file is, just out of interest.

 

[gord55]

Just been directed here...

http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/T1016_Too_Many_Temporary_Files.html

...which explains it, more or less. Thanks for your help!