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Old 08-12-2022, 03:43 PM
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I seem to remember that Word once upon a time saved the file you're working on every n minutes.



This save, saved your file to the file you'd opened on disk.

This is very different from the new autosave/autorecovery feature.

Am I misremembering.
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Yes, you are misremembering.
What you are remembering is AutoRecover.
See Automatically backup Word documents by Graham Mayor, MVP.
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Old 08-12-2022, 05:47 PM
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Yes, you are misremembering.
What you are remembering is AutoRecover.
See Automatically backup Word documents by Graham Mayor, MVP.
Ah. Thank you.

When was this feature introduced to Word?
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AutoRecover was there in Word 2003 and I suspect introduced with Word 2000 but I do not remember.
AutoSave was attempted, I think, in Word 2003 but did not work. It was introduced in its current form with Word 2007 and the predecessor of OneDrive. Graham Mayor's utility is more reliable than either.
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