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.