Ken, I don't remember doing any updating to Office. Good suggestion to try out all the components of Office! Jane > From: Ken Johnson <kr-johnson at comcast.net> > Reply-To: "Home Macintosh Users List"<HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 06:18:15 -0400 > To: "Home Macintosh Users List" <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com> > Subject: [HM] Re: files in trash > > Did you recently perform an update either intentionally, or > automatically, of the Office software? That process will frequently > throw out old files. > > If they're in the trash, and you can successfully use ALL of the Office > components, then you no longer need them. (Be certain that they are > from Office) > > Ken > > On Apr 6, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Jane Sprando wrote: > >> Yesterday I happened to notice that I have a lot of files in the trash >> that >> I didn't put there. Some are fonts and some have to do with Microsoft >> Office: Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Graphing, Word and more. They >> seem to >> be duplicates of ones already on my hard drive. >> >> 1. Does anyone have a clue as to how they got in there? >> >> 2. do I just leave them or what?????? >> >> Jane