Is there autosave (not recovery) in excel 2002

[Guest]

I now have excel 2002 which does not have the auto save add-in. Is there an
older version add-in that works best?

 

[Dave Peterson]

From what I've seen, the autosave.xla from both xl97 and xl2k will work with
xl2002+.

I'd use the xl2k version (just because it's newer) if I had access to both.

But...

Gord Dibben posted this:

Autosave.xla from Office 2000 or 97 will work with Excel 2002 or 2003.
If you have a previous copy, move it to your Office\Library.
To download the 97 version see here........
http://www.stat.jmu.edu/trep/Marchat/sp2001/Library.htm

 

[Gord Dibben]

Dave

AUTOSAVE.XLA was last shipped with Excel 2000 and newer versions do not include
it.

It cannot be found on any MS site but..............

To download the 97 version go here.....

http://www.stat.jmu.edu/trep/Marchat/sp2001/Library.htm

I have used the 97 version on Excel 2002 and 2003 and seems to operate well.

In addition to the above......Jan Karel Pieterse has an addin called AutoSafe
which also doen't alert before saving.

It doesn't overwrite the existing workbook when it saves. It saves to a user
selectable folder. And when it's done, it either deletes these backups (or
puts them in the recycle bin). And the user can always restore the backups
from the recycle bin.

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm

(look for AutoSafe.zip)


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Jon Peltier]

Let me add my vote for Jan Karel's excellent AutoSafe utility. It's
implemented the way Excel should have done it. I use it and have Excel's
Recovery feature turned off. I can go back to the recycle bin to recover any
recent version of a workbook, and in fact, the recycle bin is a good record
of what I've been working on.

- Jon