In the development of these lines we provide you with useful tools to configure the autosave time in the files on which you are working . This information will be useful for when you find yourself working on a desktop computer, momentarily the electrical service is cut off and you do not have a UPS to give you time to back up the information.
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- What are the steps to enable autosave in Excel?
- How do you turn on autosave in Microsoft Word?
- How to recover Word and Excel file on Mac?
- What to do if my PC does not allow autosave to be activated in a document?
What are the steps to enable autosave in Excel?
First we need to know how often the Excel file we are working on is automatically saved , following these steps: Go to the file tab, press options, in the pop-up panel click on save, determine the auto-save time in the option ‘save auto recovery information’.
This information will be displayed when you turn on the computer after an abrupt power outage and will allow you to access the last saved version of the document.
Another way to save without doing it manually is: go to the files tab, choose options, press customize ribbon, select within available commands in ‘all commands’, look for the one that says ‘Autosave’, finally the autosave interval will be defined by the time configured in the process initially described.
How do you turn on autosave in Microsoft Word?
This time we will teach you how to configure a document in Word to prevent valuable information from being lost due to an event that causes the computer to turn off or if you forgot to save your file.
The trick is very simple, you just have to go to the file option, go to the last part of the menu called ‘options’, specifically the ‘save’ statement, enable the ‘save auto recovery information every’ box, define the auto save interval according to your preferences to minimize the impact of information soon to be lost.
Another way to auto save is to use an updated version of office package and click the option located in the upper right corner called autosave-. It is essential when enabling the option, to link the Word document to a OneDrive account (Hotmail, Outlook,…) that can be business or personal, as the case may be.
If you want to upload your file to the Microsoft cloud in order to have access to the document from anywhere, you must do the following: go to the home tab, choose the save as command, select the OneDrive option located in the upper left , log in with your previously created Outlook or Hotmail account, the username and photo of your account will appear in your document at the top right.
Next, where what OneDrive said will now be replaced by personal OneDrive, you will have access to the folders you used recently and will allow you to generate locations for your files.
How to recover Word and Excel file on Mac?
To recover Word file on Mac, you need to follow below steps: Open a Microsoft Word file on Mac PC, select Word option, choose preferences, press ‘file location’ , choose recovery files, click modify, in the pop-up window define the recovery files path by generating a folder and now all the recovered files will be saved in the new folder.
On the other hand, we will show you how to recover deleted files on MAC computer by acting quickly, if you have deleted and emptied the trash. You just need to download an application called ‘ Data recovery wizard for Mac’ .
Once downloaded, enter your user password, select the type of file you want to recover (audio, image, graphic, document, among others), choose the partition where the file was located , scan, preview, recover, define the path of saved, click on recover and look for the recovered file in the location you determined.
What to do if my PC does not allow autosave to be activated in a document?
Due to a security option that Windows has , it is sometimes prevented from saving files from the Office suite. To solve this problem easily and simply you just have to:
Go to the start logo, settings, in the menu go to Update and Security, click Windows Security, click on viruses and protection, in the drop-down menu activate ‘ Windows Defender Antivirus options’, accept the changes, deactivate the option ‘controlled folder access’ and you can automatically save your files.
