'How to delete a word doc in office365

I'm using Office365 (in a web browser), and am trying to do something that should be extremely simple - delete a document that I created (thus, I should be the owner of the doc).

However, I cant find any button or option to delete the document anywhere.

What I have tried

  1. Clicked on File menu. There is no option to delete in the File menu.
  2. Right clicked on the file name in the Word dashboard. There is no option to delete in the context menu.
  3. Searched google
  4. Searched using the built in Tell us what you want to do box - returns no results.
  5. Used the built in Help function and searched for delete document. This returns results such as 'delete comment', 'delete page' etc but nothing related to how to delete a document.
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Solution 1:[1]

You cannot delete a document from within the Word online application. Just like you cannot delete a Word document when you have it open in Word for desktop.

In order to delete the document, you need to access the folder where the document is stored, select the document in the list of documents of the folder view and then delete it.

The blue heading in Word online contains a link to the storage location of the document to the left of the document name. Click the name of the library or folder. That will take you to a view with all documents in that folder, where you can select the file and delete it.

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Solution 2:[2]

Go to one drive(browser) and delete the file there

Solution 3:[3]

Goodness MS makes this difficult. You have to right click and select "Open file location" and then you can delete it.

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Solution 1 teylyn
Solution 2 Notsokawai
Solution 3 oliversisson

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