Deleting Temporary Files - Privacy issue

I have a privacy question regarding word. If I'm working on a personal word document at work and I save it to an external usb drive, is there still some evidence of it, like a temporary file saved on my work computer hard drive?
If so, is there a way to delete it? Also, if the document is password protected, would it stay that way in the temp file version?
Thanks everyone!

Temp files are only saved by Word if it crashes. If you have Word's preferences configured to create timed backups of files then there will be a backup saved of any edited file. You can prevent that by simply disabling the automatic backup option in Word's preferences. Temp files will not be password protected as far as I'm aware unless you have protected your account with File Vault. I'm not sure but I don't think Word has any internal way of saving a file with password protection. You can check Word's help to find out if that's possible.

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