Autosave a document in Word Xp ?

[Guest]

I cannot get Word XP to "Autosave" a document I have set "save in background"
mode on and set interval for autorecover save info to 1 min, but just will
not appear to autoSave my documents when working on them? Any ideas would be
welcome!

 

[Doug Robbins]

There is no autosave feature in Word of the type that you are trying to
implement. I would suggest that you return the auto-recover save interval
to at least the default 10 minutes otherwise, it may become a nuisance.

It's function is to allow you to recover an open document in the event of
abnormal termination of the program - like the power fails.

Once you close a document, the autorecover save file for it that Word
creates is deleted.

For normal saving, you have to do it yourself.

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[Beth Melton]

There isn't a built-in AutoSave option in Word. AutoRecover is for
'emergency use only'. If Word should happen to crash or if you lose
power the AutoRecover saved version of the document will be available
the next time you start Word. A Background save means you want to
continue working instead of waiting for the save to complete.

There is an AutoSave add-in available in Macros9.dot which can be
downloaded from:
http://word.mvps.org/downloads/
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For more information on what Doug and Beth have told you, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm

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[Guest]

Many Thankfro quick reply was hopeing there was an add-in available, can
remeber way back in some previous version where Word woudl autosave?

Anyway thanks again

 

[Jay Freedman]

I cannot get Word XP to "Autosave" a document I have set "save in background"
mode on and set interval for autorecover save info to 1 min, but just will
not appear to autoSave my documents when working on them? Any ideas would be
welcome!

The autorecover doesn't do what you think it does. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm for
enlightenment.

The link to Graham Mayor's site in the last paragraph of that article
is a good one, but the site is down today. Give Graham a day or two to
sort his ISP problem and then try it.

 

[Beth Melton]

I don't see anything different on his web site that the Word MVP FAQ
downloads page doesn't have. The Downloads page on the Word MVP FAQ
site contains a download to Macros9.dot:
http://word.mvps.org/downloads/

On Graham's site there are two links to SaveReminder.dot and one for
Macros9.dot. You can't use the SaveReminder.dot alone, unless you want
to manually customize your toolbar and add the Save Reminder Options
command, so one should just download Macros9.dot and run the
SaveReminderInstall macro which will take care of all of the
installation concerns.

IOW, the download on the Word MVP FAQ page is less confusing for those
who don't know how the install macro, found in Macros9.dot, and the
SaveReminder.dot add-in actually work.

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[Graham Mayor]

I have actually added the toolbar function to the SaveReminder.dot already.
I have just updated it to ensure that the toolbar pops up when installed as
an add-in as instructed in the readme file that accompanies it in the ZIP.

The macros9.dot is linked for convenience.

Whether or not the one resource is easier to understand than the other I
will leave to others to decide.

My web site came back on line yesterday evening and is holding - no word of
apology (yet) from the ISP

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