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Loui5
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A question about temporary files

I understand that MS Office creates temporary files when it opens spreadsheets, Word documents etc. and these could be left on the hard disk after closing MS Office.

If I open an MS Office document or spreadsheet using Portable OOo and the file being opened is on a USB memory stick, would there be any temporary files left somewhere on the host computer?

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No

Because it's the actual program that's creating the temp files, not the file it self.

When you say "MS Office document or spreadsheet" your talking about the *.doc and *.xls extensions, which (I think) DO belong to MS, but it's still just a file type, sort of "the standard", and it has no will power over what it does on your machine.
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Thank you. It makes sense.

Thank you. It makes sense.

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