Why does Excel automatically create a temporary Word archive file.

[Perplexed]

Each time I 'save as' MS Excel saves an additional file in my folder which
has archive properties and also tags it as temporary. I would like to
eliminate this additional file from the saving process. How is this done?

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

That is by design and cannot be turned off

 

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

Each time I 'save as' MS Excel saves an additional file in my folder which
has archive properties and also tags it as temporary. I would like to
eliminate this additional file from the saving process. How is this done?

This is a backup file in case something bad happens. Excel will use it to
recreate the document.
/Fredrik

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

There's a description of the process in the following MSKB article:

Description of the way that Excel saves files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=814068