Windows 10: Office Word 2013 automatically makes copies of the documents I edit?

Can anybody tell why my Office Word 2013 automatically makes copies of the documents I edit? These copies are numbered: *(1).docx, *(2).docx, etc. I am working on an essay and now I have ten copies of the same file. There must be something wrong. How can I sove this issue? Thanks.

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Saving updates to a Word 2013 document

I am trying to save updates to an existing word 2013 document but the Save as dialogue box keeps popping up over and over and it wont save.

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Setting office 2016 as a default

This references Office 2013, but also applies to Office 2016:

Can't set earlier version of Office as Default Program

Applies To: Excel 2013 Word 2013 PowerPoint 2013 Publisher 2013 Access 2013

When you have two versions of an Office program on the same PC, such as Word 2013 and Word 2010, you won’t be able to set the older program as the default in Default Programs in Control Panel. Only the newer version of Office will show in the list of programs.

Because you can’t set the default Office program, you won’t be able to choose which version of Office you’d like to use when you open a file.

To get around this problem, start the Office program you’d like to use first, and then open the file (File > Open) in the program. For example, if you’d like to open an older Word document with Word 2010, you’d need to start Word 2010 and then open the document
in Word.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Can-t-...

So, unfortunatel, there is no way around this.

 

This rings a bell but for now I would try an Office repair

 

This is from Word 2010, but it will be similar in Word 2013. It's the automatic file backup settings found under File, Options....

 

How do I carry out office repair?

 

My settings look the same as yours. I do not understand what you want me to do. Could you please explain how to solve this issue? Thanks

 

Run the Office installation disk and choose the repair option

 

I do no have it. Is there anothe way to fix it?

 

You might want to download an ISO, as I assume you already have an activated Office suite I don't see any harm here
You can't even uninstall & reinstall anything without the disk

 

Well, if it is the automatic backup creating the extra files, you would want to uncheck the box for Save Autorecovery Information. But extra copies of documents have saved my behind more than one. Typically, though, autorecovery documents start with a ~. The normal source of files with (1), and (2), etc are user saves who pick the option of making a copy of the file instead of overwriting the existing file.

 

How are you making the edit, are you editing the doc and then using 'save' or 'save as'?

 

are you apple to go to the Install/remove programs (search appwiz.cpl) select microsoft office and Choose "repair"?

 

I edit the document and I use "save."