Question with Microsoft Word 2004

[dkoksha]

I have a question with Microsoft Word 2004. There is a user in my company who states when she saves any Word file, it creates another file in the same directory called "Word Work DXXXXX". She has been saving a few different documents and there are a few of these Word Work files. I have restarted the machine, turned it off and back on and even updated Word to 11.2.6. But if she saves any of her Word docs, it still creates Word Work file.
I did some research, and found out that if she opens the original file and make changes and saves it, the Word Work file is the same doc that she was working on but without the save changes that she did. Is there a way to tell Word not to save this Word Work files, or do I have to reinstall Word back on again.
Her system is a MAC G5 tower
MAC OS 10.4.5
Word 11.2.6
Please let me know how to turn this feature off or if there is one.

Thanks

[MisterMe]

I am at a loss. Word has created these Word Work temporary files since 1938. They are deleted when you exit the app. What is the problem here?

[oceanicitl]

Found on microsft site: In Microsoft Word 2001 for Mac and Microsoft Word 98 for the Macintosh, you may notice that each time you make a change to an image file in a document, and then you save the document, a new temp file, or Word work file, is created.

This behavior can be an issue if you have limited disk space and you are working on a large document, because each of the Word work files occupy the same amount of free space on the computer's hard disk as the original document does.

To view the Word work files in the Temporary Items folder, use the Find File program, or Sherlock, to search the hard disk for a file name beginning with "Word Work File" (the file may actually be named something similar to "Word Work File xxx").

Normally, Word removes the work files after you close the document and then quit Word. However, if you have limited disk space and you are often editing images in a large document, you may need to occasionally quit Word to remove the Word work files, and then restart Word to continue editing your document.

[dkoksha]

Whats going on is that when she does close Word, those file are not deleted. I have tried reopening Word, restarting the computer and all that and those files are still showing on her computer. I had deleted them and if she still edits the original Word files, Word is still creating a Word Works back up file.

[fryke]

Well, the problem is not that it _creates_ these files, obviously, but that it doesn't remove them. Permissions problem?