Do you have the good habit of constantly saving your files while you work? But even then fate can strike if your computer crashes, the power suddenly fails, or you have accidentally closed the file without saving. Thanks to the automatic save function, you will not have lost all your work in such a case. The Office Store feature has been updated in Office 365, but set this option correctly!
Step 1: Switch
The button Save automatically is a new feature available in Excel, Word and PowerPoint for Office 365 subscribers. This will allow the program to automatically save the file every few seconds while you work. The condition is that you save the file in OneDrive. In the online version of Office 365 your documents are always automatically saved. If you work in the desktop version and the file has been saved in a different location or has not yet been saved, then the button is Save automatically turned off. When you turn on the switch, the Office program asks you to upload the file to your personal OneDrive space. This is the simplest way, but you may not want to use OneDrive.
Step 2: Automatically save locally
To use the car save function in the old way you must go to File and there you choose in the blue bar at the bottom of the Options. This opens the window Options for Word. In the left bar you go for the choice again Save. At the top you indicate how the online OneDrive and SharePoint files should be saved. In this window you can also read the path to the location of the auto-recovery file, usually that is: C: Users dirk AppData Roaming Microsoft Word . In the same window you set the time interval for automatic saving. The default is 10 minutes. Also make sure that the option that opens the automatically saved version is checked if you accidentally quit without saving.
Step 3: Restore unsaved
If you are temporarily out of your mind and have closed a file without saving it, you can still restore it. Go to the menu File and Info and at the bottom right you will find the button Manage documents where you will find unsaved documents. Click on this button and you will get a list of automatically saved documents. Look at the time data to find the right document and click To open.
