Go to this user's computer and open Excel. Go to the File menu > Save As command > Tools menu > General Options. Uncheck the box titled "Always create backup."
it's autorecovery. you sure you want to turn it off? you could be a hero if you know what it is and how to use the files in event of trouble... Tools/Options/Save/check disable autorecovery
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MS excel making unwanted auto-copies
She opens a excel file and does some editing, saves and closes.
Result is that there's the .xls -files ok, but also a copy with a name that hasn't got the .xls -extension and contains just some letters and numbers.
The autobackup-setting makes file names beginning with ~, so these ain't those. Or could they be somehow related to it?
Is it something else?