Manage Auto-save for Office Apps on Windows 10 Properly

In your daily life and work, most of you must use the Office apps to deal with documents. However, you may worry about the data loss issue in a document which might be caused by system or program crash, program or computer unexpected shutdown, or accidently closing the file without saving it.

You feel worried because you don’t know these two options, AutoRecover and AutoSave, which are provided by Office applications.

These two useful features can effectively save Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as other kinds of documents at various intervals automatically.

Now, we will show you how to manage auto-save for Office apps on Windows 10.

How to Enable AutoRecover in Office for Documents You Store on PC

If you want to control the time when you want to auto-save a document, you can use the AutoRecover feature.

When this feature is enabled, it can save the document every 10 minutes by default to make sure that most of the content in the document is available in case that the app or the computer is crashed, or you forget saving the document.

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Now, you can follow these steps to enable it:

Open Start and then search for Word or other Office app. Then, choose the top result to open it. Next, go to File > Options > Save.

Under the Save documents option, you need to check the Save AutoRecover information every (X) minutes option.

Here, you are able to adjust the AutoRecover frequency in Office apps. On the above, you can set the time in minutes (1-120 normally) to change the AutoRecover frequency according to your needs.

We also suggest checking the Keep the last AutoRecovered version if I close without saving option to protect your documents in a safer way.

When these steps ends, you can just deal with your documents on the computer without worrying about data loss due to they can be saved automatically according to the time you set.

How to Enable AutoSave in Office for Documents You Store in OneDrive

AutoSave option can be used to save documents changes automatically if you save documents in the OneDrive folder or SharePoint online. Here, you need to know that only Office 365 subscribers can use this feature.

Now, you can follow these steps to enable it:

Open Start and then search for Word or other Office app. Then, choose the top result to open it. Next, go to File > Options > Save. 

This time, please check the AutoSave OneDrive and SharePoint Online files by default on Word option.

After these steps, the Office document in the OneDrive folder future changes can be saved automatically.

When you are using this feature, you will be unable to control the AutoSave timer for the changes can be saved in real-time when you work with them.

These two features are very useful. Please try them too keep your important work document content safe.