Software policies microsoft office 14.0 word options AutoRecoverEnabled =0. This works fine on Powerpoint, but in Excel and Word users still have the chance to enable autorecovery from the 'file' menu on the client. Time settings are greyed out, but by activating autorecovery, settings are configurable again. Open an Excel or Word file, to go 'File', and click 'Options'. Go to 'Save' and check 'Save AutoRecover information every. minute' to enable the AutoRecover feature in Word/Excel application. But I don't get your problem. I suggest you try to reset Normal.dotm template file for load Word. Please go to this location: C: Users AppData Roaming Microsoft Templates. Please rename the Normal.dotm to Normal.dotm.old, then restart Word and check the result. Any updates please let me know, I'm glad to help you. Regards, Emi Zhang. AutoSave is a new feature available in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 subscribers that saves your file automatically, every few seconds, as you work. AutoSave is enabled by default in Microsoft 365 when a file is stored on OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online. After opening a file saved in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint that is synced using a sync client, you may experience that the AutoSave is incorrectly disabled or greyed out. Hovering over the AutoSave toggle, the tool tip will prompt you with the following message: AutoSave Not Available. This file location doesn't support AutoSave.

As a matter of course, you should be regularly saving your work in Microsoft Word. The more changes you make to a document, the more often you should save it. However, there may be times when Word closes before you’ve had chance to save your latest changes, for example if your computer crashes.

Fortunately for us, Word saves your work behind the scenes via its AutoSave facility. AutoSave works together with AutoRecover to help you get back documents that otherwise might be lost.

Changing AutoSave and AutoRecover Options

To change the AutoSave and AutoRecover options, click the File tab > Options, and click Save on the left. This section allows you to change many AutoSave details, the main ones being covered below.

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• Ensure that the checkbox next to Save AutoRecover information every x minutes is checked, and change the number of minutes to reflect how regularly you want Word to save your documents.
• Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving does just that. Sometimes in the heat of the moment we acidentally click “No” when we close Word and it asks whether we want to save our changes. This option allows us to recover our “unsaved” document.
• AutoRecover file location specifies where our AutoSaved versions go. You can actually see the AutoSaved documents using Windows Explorer.
• Default file location specifies where documents get saved by default.