Looking for info on background save in Word 2007

[WaltR]

I'm looking for info about the setting: Word Options>Advanced>Save>Allow background saves. I'm not sure if it's working, but I'm not sure what it does either, so some clarification would be very helpful. Is it different from AutoRecovery? AR saves recovery information every ten minutes in my Application Data folder, but what does background save do? Is it supposed to save a copy of the actual document in the original folder? How often is it supposed to make saves? Does it depend on the AR setting or is it independent? Any insight appreciated.

[Stefan Blom]

Background save simply means that you can continue working while the save operation occurs.

[WaltR]

Hi Stefan, thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I understand what it means exactly though. Can you describe an example of it in action, or where it would be beneficial? Thanks a lot.

[Stefan Blom]

My understanding of background saving is that it doesn't keep the whole program busy when saving. In other words, you can continue working (adding text, formatting) while the save operation finishes.

I have no idea if background saving means anything in practice today (even with large documents), when computers have a lot of disk space an processor power.

[WaltR]

Ahh, now I get it. For me it only takes a couple of seconds to save very large files so that's what was confusing me. MS must have left it in for people using older systems.

Many thanks.