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This 2010 version of Office is new for me. I think there is that option I will look into and let you know Thanks for the suggestion! Okay I did find that option it was turned on and it gave me a location so I copied that path into windows explorer and opened it but it was empty I also turned autorecover off saved my porblem excel file and reoped with auto recover off it still does the same thing. I also get the occasioanl message that excel cannot open and it askes me if I want to diagnose which I reply yes but it says it cant fix the problem do you think I should uninstall excel and reinstall it?

No I did not make the copy of the file ; they don’t exist as far as I know that is what I find so scary. The only file I see is the original file in my folder. The copy only shows up when I try to open the file . First it prompts for a password on the copy then it prompts for a password on the original. Also and when I save it only the original file is saved, I am not asked to save the copy it’s acts like a shadow. I did check for links as you suggested but there are none. You did give me an idea – Excel did crash a while ago and when I opened it back up it gave me a choice between versions so I saved the one I wanted and it all seemed okay. That was a few weeks ago. I just went into the control panel and ran the Microsoft office repair under add change programs to see if that would help but after I ran it and opened the file it still does the same thing. If you have anymore ideas they would be appreciated!