You might check your autorecovery folder. It's set under Excel Options,
Save. I don't think they are regular XLS* files btw.

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Jim
"Oryon007" wrote in message
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|I am currently running MS Excel 2007 and have run into an issue. Excel
| crashed on me and when I reopened it, the autorecover feature prompted me
to
| save the files that were open at the time of the crash. I have since saved
| them and then deleted them after they weren't needed anymore. However,
| everytime that Excel opens, the program STILL prompts me to save the
files.
| The option to delete the files is grayed out and I receive an error when I
| try to save them. I cannot find any temp files that might be on the
system,
| either. Does anyone have any other ideas on this?