Excel XP Autosave

[andrew McNeilage]

How do you set up Excel XP Autosave ?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Autosave has been removed from xl2002. It's been replaced (kind of) with a
feature called AutoRecovery. This catches catastrophic problems--excel crashing
and windows crashing--but not quite the same thing as autosave.

But if you still have access to the autosave from xl97 or xl2k, you'll find that
it still works with xl2002.

And to set AutoRecovery:
tools|options|Save Tab

 

[Harald Staff]

Hi

A very good alternative is "AutoSafe" found at
http://www.bmsltd.co.uk/MVP/Default.htm

 

[Gord Dibben]

But don't expect it to act like Autosave. Jan's add-in is more akin to
XL2002's Autorecovery.

Quoted from a posting by Jan.........

My Autosafe does NOT save your work as Excel's Autosave does. It makes
*backup copies* of your work in progress. It DOES keep track of where
a backup file's original comes from so it knows where to restore it
to, should you experience a crash (which is what Excel's Autosave does
NOT do).

You still have to save your work yourself, but should Excel crash,
Autosafe will prompt you to restore the last backup copies it has kept
for you. It will also check whether the master version (original) is
more recent than the backup copy and warn you if that is the case.

End quote............

The AUTOSAVE.XLA from earlier versions of Excel works fine on XP version. If
you can obtain a copy that is.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP