Office 2000 Autosave had a bug which was corrected in a Service Release.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;231117
XL2000: AutoSave Settings Are Not Retained Between
Sessions of Excel 2000


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:23:32 -0700, Ludvig
wrote:

i am wondering is there a way to lock or set the auto save so that everytime
you reopen the work book it is not necessary to go through the autosave
prompt procedure? i don't want to do it for all wookbooks,only the one i am
actively working on.

any ideas?