Thanks, Dave. That took care of it.

I was led astray by Excel's online help--when you search for "backup" the
most relevant-looking topic it comes up with is about autorecovery. I now see
that discussion of the "Always create backup" option is buried under a topic
on repairing corrupt files.

--klb


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

This isn't autorecovery that's making the backups.

When you do a SaveAs, you can click on:
Tools|General Options|and uncheck the "always create backup" checkbox.

This is a workbook setting. So you'll have to do this to each workbook that
creates backups.