Thanks, Charles. I guess I'll have to learn how to use it now then per your advice. I should explain that I make my living as a writer (often on horseback) so I don't work with templates but rather, I tend to reversion or modify an existing article for a different application (online, press release, website etc.). I then find that Autosave has overwritten the original and I have to go into version history to get back to the original then restore it (if I have forgotten to turn Autosave off right at the start) having saved the 'new' version under a different document name as usual. It's quite tricky - the 'what do you want to do' window that Microsoft puts up when you row back is ambiguous to my eye. I'd like to go back to just 'do you want to save changes?'.

Either way, it adds unnecessary time and stress to what was previously a quick, straightforward process. My wish is that - at the very least - the default for Autosave could be Off rather than On - maybe it can be but I can't find how to make it so. I'm trying to discipline myself to make turning it off the first action when opening a document - it's often hidden away beneath the first layer of the quick action toolbar so doesn't jump out and bite me up front.

I do use Word 2016 online (Office 365 subscription) with OneDrive - and I wish I had not chosen it! I openly admit that I am not a Word expert - I just use it as an efficient typewriter (and have done for 20 years now) - but it used to work fairly intuitively for me, so I found it pretty easy.

Another major bugbear with the online version is autocorrect. In previous versions of Word, I could build up a library of words I commonly mistype and Word would automatically correct them. I can't find how to do this in the online version so have to manually correct each one (I'm not a brilliant typist so this takes time!).

If you can help me on either point I would be very grateful. I will also follow your link (thank you) and have a go at Microsoft direct.