A. Word offers basic file maintenance functions, such as delete, rename and copy files, through the Open dialog box. If you have used the Save As command to give the document a new file name, you cannot delete the old file from within Word without first closing the newly saved file. Even though the new file is saved, and there are two files, the old one and the new one, Word still has information in its memory relating to the old file. You must close the new file first. Simply close the file then reopen the Open dialog box in Word. You can now delete the old file without an error!

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