Today we are going to see how to activate and configure the autosave function in Word. Office has been the most used office suite for many years, it has many interesting functions to work productively, comfortably and, above all, safely.
Office allows us to configure practically everything to adapt it to our needs. From changing the look completely, to changing the language, even sharing documents through OneDrive.
But one of the most interesting functions is the autosave. If you work with computers surely on some occasion while you were working the power goes out or you accidentally close the file in question. This means that everything we have worked on and have not saved is lost. How do we solve this issue? How can we avoid losing information?
Word has an autosave function that allows you to configure the program so that, without having to do anything, everything you are doing is saved. If you are not familiar with this feature, we invite you to review what autosave is on the official Microsoft Support page.
This way you avoid losing information, you can continue doing your tasks in Word without worries, focusing on what you have to do and not on whether the power goes out or for some reason you can’t save the file.
We are going to see a little below a fairly simple but effective tutorial so that you learn not only to activate the autosave function of Word but also so that you know exactly how to configure it and how it works.
How to turn on autosave in Word
- The first thing you should do is click on “File” at the bottom left of Word.
- Next, you will have to go to “Options” which is located almost below everything on the left sidebar.
- A new window opens with many sections. The one that interests us is “Save” which is located in the left sidebar.
- Here it is important that you have two boxes checked: “Save autorecover information every x minutes” and “Keep the last autorecover version if it is closed without saving”.
You can configure so that the information is saved every a certain amount of minutes, that is something that you must decide. This way you won’t have to worry about losing your work in Word. Note that if you set autosave to save the file every 10 minutes, the last 9 minutes will not be saved and will be lost.
Ideally, if you are working a lot in Word, set it to save every 5 minutes, this way you will not lose as much information in case something happens. You should be aware that this may affect the performance of Office a bit. So if you want it to be faster you should set it to 20 minutes or more.
How to configure autosave
It is not at all complicated to configure autosave in Word. With only the options that we mentioned above, you already have the function active and you will not lose as much information in the event that the power goes out or something of force majeure occurs that does not allow you to save your work, which you could then send by mail or share by email. OneDrive.
This is mostly important on desktop computers. Since in the case of laptops, if the power goes out, it can continue to work with the battery. However, don’t be too confident, because if something unrelated to the light happens (a forced reboot, hard drive failure, etc.) you can also lose important information.
If it is a very important job, it is better to save everything in OneDrive that is perfectly synchronized with Word, for which you will have to create an account in OneDrive. This way you won’t lose your jobs no matter what. Remember that if you have any kind of doubt about this topic you can leave it a little further down in the comment box.
