Gord

Yes, subtle difference I didn't pick up, although my experience with the xla
was always bad, so I never used it, (crashed the app continuously when
trying to save during other operations). The auto-recovery, which is really
what Word, etc does is far more intuitive, granted it doesn't save a copy
come what may, but maybe as I save regularly, or often start with a save
as... I don't often have problems.

Interestingly, since we have had Win 2003 server at work, you can simply
restore previous versions by right clicking the file and choosing from any
twice a day autosaved versions from the last five days.

I suspect the old xla will work just as it did under 2002/3???

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
www.nickhodge.co.uk
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"Gord Dibben" gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
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Nick

There is no Autosave in XL2002 and 2003 as there was in earlier versions.

Autorecovery from ToolsOptionsSave is it. This is not the same as the
Autosave Add-in which made true incremental saves at intervals and alerted
you
before saving.

Autorecovery just saves a temporary file which it deletes if Excel closes
normally without incident.

Alicia..........As far as Excel 2007...........I have no idea if the
AUTOSAVE.XLA from Excel 2000 will function as it did in 2002 and 2003, if
you
can get your hands on a copy


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:57:45 +0100, "Nick Hodge"
wrote:

Alicia

Excel has had autosave since XL2000. In that release it was an add-in, it
was brought into the product as a standard feature in Excel 2002 (XP) so
of
course it's been in Excel 2003 and XL2007 too. It's on by default.

You can look at the settings from the 'Office Button'Excel Options...Save