AutoRecover in Microsoft Word

Contributed by risherz November 8, 2005  
Tagged: Microsoft Office

Let Microsoft Word save the files for you in case Word has to close down or your system crashes.

Microsoft Word has a built in feature called AutoRecover that automatically saves a document and incase word has to close or your computer crashes, word automatically opens your file for you.
Word saves you files temporarily every 10 or 9 minutes depending on which version you have. It is better to set that to a lower time so that more current information is saved.

To do this just follow these steps:

1. First click on Tools. You can find the tools button in the menubar.
2. Then click on Options…then click on options.
3. After that click on the Save tab click on the save tab
4. Make sure the check box beside “Save AutoRecover info every:” is checked
5. Then use the buttons beside the number you see to make the number lower. You can also type in a number. Note: you can’t set it to a number lower than 1 because if you do that the check box will “uncheck itself”
6. Just click on OK and your all set!

Note: Every time word is saves a file you might notice that you won’t be able to type if you don’t have lots of RAM.

This article applies to Microsoft Word 97 and above.