When you close the document normally, Word deletes the document's temporary files. These contain versions of your document that you have saved earlier in the current editing session. The temporary files you're most likely to notice are those that Word keeps in the same folder as the document itself. You don't need to know all the details to use Word effectively, but understanding the basics of temporary files not only clears up various mysteries about how Word works but also can help you recover from assorted annoyances.
Word uses several different types of temporary files for different purposes. Temporary files are files that Word creates to store data temporarily as it works on the documents that you have created deliberately. The default location for Word 2003 is your %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Word folder. Word saves AutoRecover documents in the folder specified in the "AutoRecover files" line of the File Locations tab of the Options dialog box (Tools » Options). For example, the AutoRecover document for a file called Benefits statement.doc would be named AutoRecovery save of Benefits statement.asd. Word saves AutoRecover documents using the name AutoRecovery save of. (Of course, you're better off saving your documents more frequently.) If you're typing 100 words per minute, shorten the interval and check "Allow background saves" so that you can keep working through most of the AutoRecover process. The default is 10 minutes, which is fine if you're poking at a document. If you tend to forget to save your documents, make sure the "Save AutoRecover info every" box is checked and set a suitable length of time in the Minutes drop-down list. To turn it off, choose Tools » Options, click the Save tab, and uncheck the "Save AutoRecover info every" box. (Yes, I too obsessively press Ctrl+S at the end of each burst of typing.) In this case, AutoRecover offers little benefit. If you've lost work in Word documents to crashes, chances are you now save the active document whenever you've made any changes to it that you want to keep. If you close a document normally, Word deletes its AutoRecover document. When you restart Word after a crash, it automatically opens the latest AutoRecover documents so that you can choose which to recover (see the previous Annoyance, " Recover a Document After a Crash"). What you're seeing is Word's AutoRecover feature automatically saving a backup version of the document in case Word, Windows, or your computer crashes. But I know it's not saving my document, because the document still contains unsaved changes. Every few minutes, Word seems to save something by itself I see the readout flicker across the status bar.
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