Set up Autosave on Microsoft Word 2007

AutoSave and AutoRecover are features you can enable in Microsoft Word 2007 to automatically save and back up your work. Sometimes you may experience power outages or errors that force you to reboot your computer before you have had the opportunity to save your work. The AutoSave feature allows you to choose how often your work is saved automatically in increments of minutes. The AutoRecover feature will restore you to the same state or location you were at in your document before your system crashed. Continue reading to learn how to set up the AutoSave and AutoRecover features in Microsoft Word 2007.

Steps

Enable the AutoSave Feature

1. Open the Microsoft Word 2007 application on your computer.
2. Click on the Microsoft Office button in any open Word session. This button is a logo of Microsoft Windows and is in the upper-left corner of Word.
3. Select the "Word Options" button in the bottom of the window that appears.
4. Choose "Save" in the left pane.
5. Click on the arrow in the drop-down menu next to "Save files in this format" to select "Word 97-2003 document."
6. Place a check mark next to the "Save AutoRecover information every x minutes" section.
7. Specify how often you want Word to save your document and program state by clicking on the arrows in the minutes section.
   • Your system will not save any work you have done after the last AutoSave if it shuts down. For example, if you set Word to save your work every 10 minutes, and your system shuts down 8 minutes after the last AutoSave, any work done during that 8 minutes will not be saved.
8. Modify your saved file locations next to the fields of "AutoRecover file location" and "Default file location" if you want to change the file storage locations.
9. Click the "OK" button to apply and save your settings.

Use AutoRecover to Retrieve Work

1. Reopen Word after your computer or system has shut down abnormally and rebooted.
2. Click on the "Yes" button when a dialog box appears asking if you want to load your automatically saved documents in Word.
3. View your most recent saved Word files in the left side of the Document Recovery Task Pane.
   • Files followed by "Original" were last saved using the manual "Save" button method, whereas files followed by "Autosaved" were last saved with the AutoSave feature.
   • The files will display the date and times each version was saved.
4. Open and review your Word documents to take note of each file version that may be missing content using the Document Recovery Task Pane.
5. Save the versions of the file you want to keep and delete the older versions by answering the prompts accordingly.

Tips

• You can still save your work manually at any time by clicking the "Save" button in your toolbar. You can also press the Control-S keys as a shortcut to save your work.

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Sources and Citations

• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/automatically-save-and-recover-office-files-HP010140729.aspx?CTT=1
• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-configure-save-with-autorecover-in-ms-word-2007/
• http://engr.oregonstate.edu/computing/personal/212

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