When I am working on excel and i open another instance of excel, or I
open word, this causes the excel I was working on to crash and
dissapear without any warning. It just closes leaving no trace. When I
re open I get the auto recover files. I set the auto recover save to
every five minutes beacuse of this. This very often results in five
minutes worth of work, which can add up. This happens sometimes even
when i dont open a new excel or word. I can just happen randomly. One
thing that never happened is it crashing and dissapearing while I was
working directly on the spreadsheet. It only happens when working on
something else and having excel opened. Can someone please help me
with this?

thanks,
jay