Maybe you are ending up with unsuccessful save attempts..

--Do you work on a network. If so check out whether you have proper rights ..
--Do you have an antivirus software running; try disabling that for a while
and try saving..

--
Jacob


"VT" wrote:

I have been using excel 2007 and i have noticed that the software creates
*.tmp files with 8 digit letters starting with alphanumeric combinations.
these temp files do not get deleted and remain. it is very irritating. can
anyone suggest a way out to avoid such file creation as it required manual
deletion of these files. also these files can be opened with excel.