Here's a quick and easy solution to excel asking to save changes to book1.
Search for a folder "xlstart" if found, delete any files in the folder
that you do not want excel to start automatically when its started.......
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Markus


"Mark" wrote:

This same exact thing has happened to me....suddenly excel is automatically
creating book 1 and asks to save changes to it when none were made....I
looked in my command line and it already had a " /e" there...your suggested
fix. I tried taking it off and then readding it but to no avail. No matter
what I try, I can't seem to get around excel creating a new workbook1. I'm
on a company network and strongly suspect that something has changed globally
that made excel suddenly react this way.
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Markus


"DaveW" wrote:

This relates to Excel 2007 and seems to have started maybe about a week or so
ago. I never had this problem before. It is a nuisance and frustrating to
have to click on "No" in the dialog box when I simply want to exit Excel. It
now happens whenever I have first launched Excel 2007 (a process that
automatically generates a blank, new workbook titled "Book1") and then have
opened a preexisting workbook, or when I have started Excel by clicking on a
preexisting workbook, then opened a "New" workbook (which is titled "Book1"),
saved and closed any and all workbooks other than the new "Book1" (which I
have not used at all), and then try to exit Excel. It may be noteworthy that
this does not happen if I simply start Excel by clicking on a preexisting
workbook and then exit Excel without having made any changes to that
workbook. It seems to occur only when "Book1" (or, I suppose, a "Book2,"
etc.) is involved.