How to Auto Save Your Work On Ms Office

You’ll be disappointed, panic or maybe sad when you’ve just typed your important document but suddenly your computer crash without prior notice, mostly due to power outages or windows crashes.

Now you can prevent it to happened again or at least take action to prevent that data or keystrokes  not lost when the computer died because of power outages or other reasons. In Microsoft Office such as ms word, excel, etc. there has been an auto recovery facility which serves to store files or data automatically on a regular basis. Periodically due at certain time interval (by default for 10 minutes) ms word, excel will do the save command automatically. Hence the importance of the auto recovery feature is enabled then it should be.

To set the auto recovery on MS Office 2007, in this case MS Word 2007 you can follow these steps below.

1. Open MS Word 2007
2. Click the Office button at the top left of your MS Word window and then select Word Options.
3. In the Word Options window that appears click Save.
4. In the right panel make sure the Save AutoRecover Information Every ...  minutes have been checked or selected.
5. Set the Ms word  time interval for the auto recovery. By default it has 10 minutes. Set to 5 minutes, not too fast like a minute because it will cause your computer run slower.
6. Click the OK button.

Now you have your Microsoft Office Word auto save you’re your data every 5 mins, to avoid you lost your document when the computer crashes or running out of power.  If in any case your computer crash again, all you have to is open the MS Word and click the unsaved document from the auto recovery window and you’ll have your work back.