This isn't usual behavior for Excel (and I don't think that MSWord usually works
this way, either).

I'd bet that you have some helpful macro that's making copies of the workbooks
(and documents???).

You may be able to isolate the helpful excel macro by using some of the
techniques he

Chip Pearson's notes:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

And Jan Karel Pieterse has more notes at:
http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp

daddyribs wrote:

Excel and Word are filling up my temp directory with copies of saved
worksheets and
documents.?

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Dave Peterson