I know many people do,īut this folder, this desktop folder is special in that every file that shows I tend not to like a lot of things on my desktop. The document itself is in your desktop folder. Now, the other thing that had to come together for this to happen, you have toĪctually have the document on your desktop. It’s that temporary file that Word makes all of its changes in saves things toĭisc on and so forth so that it doesn’t modify the original file until you’reĪctually done.
So what that is: when Word works on a document, it creates a temporary file. Sign so that it actually is tildedollarampledocument.doc. That, in fact, they replaced the first character, the ‘S’ with the tilde dollar I grab the properties for it so that you can see Going to double-click it open again and son of a gun, there is a file called They were just hidden so we have this Word document here on my desktop. I won’t go into why there are two right now, but the fact is that Click OK and you’ll notice right away I’m going to go ahead and close Windows Explorer and you’ll notice rightĪway that a couple of ghostly files actually showed up. Showing hidden files, folders, and drives. The Folder option that may have suggested you change is this thing about I’m going to close itĪnd now I’m going to bring up Windows Explorer real quick. You can see here I have anĮxample document on my desktop and is just that an example document in WordĪnd you’ll notice there is no ghostly tilde dollar file. So, let me show what’s going on here first.
That if you’ve been reading Ask Leo! for awhile, you did something I told you to So, you didn’t do anything strange and in fact, there’s a very good chance I must have done something strange to cause Sometimes with a tilde dollar before the icon name. Whenever I open a Word 7 document, I get a ghostly icon on my desktop
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