This is a quick tip on how to enable auto save option in Office word 2007.
- Click on the Office Button.
- Go to ‘Word options’
- Click on the ‘Save’.
- Check the check box before ‘AutoRecovery information every __ minutes’.
- Based on your need, specify the time interval for Auto Saving the document. In my case, I set it to 5 minutes.
Note: This tip holds good for Excel and PowerPoint too.
Updated:13th May 2008
Following the above steps, you can set a Auto Recovery point for the word document. Unfortunately there is no ‘Auto Save’ option in Office 2007. What a pity. 
the auto save with Office 2007 isn’t an auto save, its an auto recovery.
There is a big difference between the two:
Auto recovery – if you computer crashes, you can auto recover the file, losing only the last x minutes (whatever you set)
Auto save – if you work on a file all day without saving it (Ctrl-s) and then you close it and accidentally click ‘no’ under the ‘do you want to save?’ you just lost your days work. (it happened to me – I tried several ways to get it back, including searching for the .ASD file (the auto recovery file) but didn’t have any luck
Office 2003 had an auto save, but for some reason office 2007 doesn’t. Very upsetting for me, now I need to install a third party application that will auto save for me so this doesn’t happen again.
Comment by Tom — October 4, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
hi jag
i have a user that is experiencing system hang like symtoms while Excel2007 does an Auto Recovery.
i have checked his hardware and did not find and problems there… the OS of this computer is WinXP SP2 OS
is there a way to solve this seeming hanging issue…
pls advise…
pls reply to cyberdroidz@gmail.com
Comment by thomas eapen — October 26, 2007 @ 7:23 am
Hey
Check where the auto recovery is putting your file. I suspect a network issue. If the auto recovered file is being stored on a network location, then change it to any location on your local machine.
Also check out whether your system meets the minimum requirements for Excel 2007
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101668651033.aspx?pid=CL100796341033#12
Cheers
Jag
Comment by Jag — October 29, 2007 @ 12:44 am
Thanks M8!
Comment by Alex — December 6, 2007 @ 11:48 am
I am just reeling from the loss of about 4 hours of hardcore work..and am furious to find that autosave doesn’t exist anymore. Any idea where I can get 3rd party software to make it happen. Horrible! GRRRR!
Comment by Fran — February 13, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
Hi is this true.
Word 2007 dosen’t have auto save function ???
Tell me this is not true ???
OR
Comment by iceman — March 5, 2008 @ 12:14 am
Excel 2007, as described above, does AutoRecovery, which doesn’t help if you yourslef made a mistake and killed work, or wrote over a file. I have searched for an add in and found two.
One being solf for about US$30 on some sites and US$20 on others. All from SobolSoft. It is on just about every download site, but under several different names. Download is easy, but will not run – even to test – with out money up front.
The second, from what I consider a much more professional source, http://www.jkp-ads.com/download.asp, dows not cost money, and does not claim to save the world – just works.
“Learning Through Mistakes”
Comment by TvdH — March 5, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
Bummer, I should have read this blog earlier – just clicked “no” by misstake when closing a word document, all days work cannot be recovered, and that’s from someone who does nightly backups and use NSI shadow to autosave copies to a fileserver but who also would never imagine that MS would take out the autosave function, nor that the shadow copy only would be created when a document is actively saved in Word.
Comment by bump — August 17, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
Just lost a full afternoon’s work because Autorecover does not actually autosave. Nice feature MS. I am pissed!
Comment by Andy — March 6, 2009 @ 12:29 am
Thanks for your info. I was just trying to recover a friend’s powerpoint presentation that he had been working on for hours. Powerpoint just crashed without warning and now there is no way to recover.
Comment by Ibrahim Hafidh — March 14, 2009 @ 1:27 am
SUCK A l)ick
Comment by lol1269balls — April 16, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
nice job ^ ^ guy above me Not funny
How do you go to settings set set auto recovery
Comment by nicejob — April 16, 2009 @ 12:14 pm
nice infomation
Comment by नरेश सिह — June 25, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
Thanks for the link but I’m confused, it looks like the AutoSafe addin on that link (http://www.jkp-ads.com/download.asp) is just like autorecover and “As soon as a workbook is closed the backup copy is deleted from the backup directory.”
That’s not an autosaVe function at all, just stoopid auto recovery from someone who isn’t ms. Have i missed somthing here? I can’t see anything else on that site thats like an autosave addin
Comment by MindTheGap — October 21, 2009 @ 7:24 pm
thanks for the info..it helps a lot
for me..
have a good day and God Bless
BEST REGARDS
Comment by annaliza Cardenas — October 23, 2009 @ 9:54 am