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Word 2019/365: Enable or Disable AutoRecover Save

Word 2019/365: Enable or Disable AutoRecover Save

By Mitch Bartlett 8 Comments

AutoRecover is a feature in Microsoft Word 2019 or Office 365 that automatically saves the document you’re working on at certain intervals. This allows you to recover the document if your PC malfunctions in the middle of your work. AutoRecover can be enabled or disabled by using the following steps.

  1. Open Word and select “File” > “Options“.
  2. Choose “Save” on the left pane.
    Word Save Options selection
  3. Uncheck the box for “Save AutoRecover information every x minutes” if you wish to disable the AutoRecover feature. Check the box to enable it. You can also set the length of time in between when Word saves AutoRecover data.
    AutoSave Options

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Filed Under: Office Tagged With: Office 365, Word 2019

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  1. Aarav says

    February 10, 2021 at 10:36 pm

    I have word 365 and I am not getting any of these options and also it some times stops working and a message box comes up showing ms word has stopped working

  2. user says

    February 10, 2021 at 10:35 pm

    not quite helpful……but got some extra information

  3. Colleen says

    April 23, 2020 at 3:17 am

    I have disabled auto save in word but it still won’t save a document.
    A box comes up saying MIcrosoft Word has stopped working

  4. Susan says

    December 2, 2019 at 1:04 pm

    I change my setting to save every 1 minute. but it always seems to revert back to 10 minutes! I just accidentally closed Word without saving and when I went back to the auto recover versions, my most recent changes weren’t saved. I checked the time interval and it had, AGAIN, gone back to 10 minutes. Why does it do this??? It didn’t happen before I used 365.

  5. Ping says

    October 3, 2019 at 9:46 am

    I have the same problem as Jennilyn said. No matter I turn it on or off it won’t save it aut0maticaly.

  6. Nick says

    September 30, 2019 at 12:11 am

    I am trying to disable AutoSave on 2019 Word. My version has no Option under File to disable Autosave. I cannot figure how to disable AutoSave.

  7. Jennilyn says

    July 27, 2019 at 3:40 am

    The box is checked but it still says that AutoSave is off in the top left corner. Also, how does one recover said saved documents? There was a glitch and my word document lost a few pages of work and I want to try and find them.

  8. RB Bolin says

    April 26, 2019 at 12:02 pm

    What would be useful would be a list of pros and cons. For example, it appears that autosave may slow down Microsoft Word especially on a network drive.

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