The Autorecovery feature automatically saves your work in case of a crash.
There is no real overhead to it and it can only help if you do crash.
However if you'd rather lose all your work<g, turn it off under Tools,
Option, Save.

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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Evan" wrote in message
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|I noticed that when working on large excel files the program often gets
| caught up and at the bottom left hand corner the program is performing a
Save
| Auto Recovery. What causes this and is there a way to minimize this?