History question about MS Word autosave

[betr8bun]

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.

[Charles Kenyon]

Yes, you are misremembering.
What you are remembering is AutoRecover.
See Automatically backup Word documents by Graham Mayor, MVP.

[betr8bun]

Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon

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?

[Charles Kenyon]

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.