Excel not prompting for save on exit

[jim37055]

A co-worker has had something happen to his excel settings that is
causing Excel not to prompt him to ask if he wants to save his work
when he closes a spreadsheet. I have searched in vain for the setting
that controls this. I am sure that this is something very simple that
I should know, but if anyone could help me past this brain fart I am
currently having, I would appreciate it.

 

[Michael Behm]

Hi Jim,

I don't personally have any experience with this issue, but I did come
accross some user posts in another forum that pertain to this. One person
was having this issue only when saving to a networked drive. People who
were having problems saving locally were able to solve their problem by
trying the following:

1.) delete all excel10.xls from C:\documents and settings\current
profile\application data\microsoft\excel.

Before doing this ensure excel isn't running, hope this helps.

2.) The cause was dangling Excel processes. After killing them taskkill /f
/im excel.exe the problem went away!

Just thought I would pass this on to you. see
http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Excel-2003-prompt-save-exit-ftopict695953.html

Michael