While the AutoSave feature was added to Windows Office software since August last year, Mac users running the Office software have had to make do with the rather uncompromisingly absent of the nifty Office feature until now. Microsoft last week added AutoSave to the core applications in Office for Mac 2016, and also to subscribers of Office 365. Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 with refresh version number of 16.9, now automatically save files opened on Word, Excel and PowerPoint from Microsoft's cloud-based storage services, including OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. The AutoSave widget is at the top-left of the Word, Excel and PowerPoint windows when the file being edited is opened from one of the support online storage services. With files automatically saved to the cloud repository every few seconds, which interval may vary depending on what you are working on,.
AutoSave is a different feature which automatically saves your file as you work - just like if you save the file manually - so that you don't have to worry about saving on the go. On the Mac, AutoSave is available in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint for Office 365 subscribers. AutoSave is a new feature that saves changes to Office documents in real time to OneDrive and SharePoint. Let’s review how to enable it and all the details around how it works.
And locally-stored files, when opened, will show a dimmed widget indicating that AutoSave is not available. The widget can also be used to disable AutoSave for that specific file, or turn back on the feature for the same file later.
Albeit, AutoSave for Office on Windows can be permanently disabled through the registry hacks, which instructions are, there isn't a similar workaround for the Mac Office. Other new features for Office 2016 on Mac includes: real-time collaborative editing in all three applications, additional Excel charts, and a quick-start assistant in PowerPoint.
And perhaps for the first time in over 20 years, Office is again built out on one codebase for all platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android). While the AutoSave feature was added to Windows Office software since August last year, Mac users running the Office software have had to make do with the rather uncompromisingly absent of the nifty Office feature until now. Microsoft last week added AutoSave to the core applications in Office for Mac 2016, and also to subscribers of Office 365.
Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 with refresh version number of 16.9, now automatically save files opened on Word, Excel and PowerPoint from Microsoft's cloud-based storage services, including OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. The AutoSave widget is at the top-left of the Word, Excel and PowerPoint windows when the file being edited is opened from one of the support online storage services. With files automatically saved to the cloud repository every few seconds, which interval may vary depending on what you are working on,. And locally-stored files, when opened, will show a dimmed widget indicating that AutoSave is not available.
The widget can also be used to disable AutoSave for that specific file, or turn back on the feature for the same file later. Albeit, AutoSave for Office on Windows can be permanently disabled through the registry hacks, which instructions are, there isn't a similar workaround for the Mac Office.
Other new features for Office 2016 on Mac includes: real-time collaborative editing in all three applications, additional Excel charts, and a quick-start assistant in PowerPoint. And perhaps for the first time in over 20 years, Office is again built out on one codebase for all platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android).
Mike4003 wrote: CarlosTech wrote: it only works with files that are stored in Onedrive or Sharepoint. If you store your files locally, autosave doesn't work with these. Where as it used to. Well, that may explain why the last several times a user had an Office app crash there were no autosaved files. Like I said, it doesn't work worth a damn. A little deceptive since the options are still there. Yep, and this has been since August 2017.
Yet i don't remember any mention that autosave would be getting dropped in favour of autosave for onedrive/sharepoint only. I've been telling users autosave works this way. When in fact they dropped the functionality without telling people. 'Cloud' computing at it's best!
Simply shows the world of business that if you adopt their cloud systems, you literally have no control or say in what happens to your systems! Don't get me wrong i'm a fan of 365 and so forth (it works well) but this example shows why the bigger businesses in the world won't be adopting infrastructure in the cloud fully. It means handing all REAL control over to Microsoft. I am struggling to understand What function you are missing. As far as i know no functions are removed in the latest updates. The new autosave in the top left corner is a new way to use collaboration, to work with multiple users in the same file (and yes, it is base on using onedrive or sharepoint). But the old collaboration is still available, you only need to add the button back to the ribbon (using change ribbon and search for collaboration (depreciate) in all commands).
This one still works with local files. The fact that this function was about to changed has been communicated by Microsoft for the last 6 month or so. I have received several emails about it and it was in the office 365 admin portal. But the old function had no autosave as far as i know.
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If you are looking fore the automatically saving of autorecovery files. To use when office crashed to get as close to the last edits as set in the save time.
That option is still there and has not changed. You can find this in the options under save. Just enable it and set a timespan. Auke wrote: I am struggling to understand What function you are missing. As far as i know no functions are removed in the latest updates. The new autosave in the top left corner is a new way to use collaboration, to work with multiple users in the same file (and yes, it is base on using onedrive or sharepoint). But the old collaboration is still available, you only need to add the button back to the ribbon (using change ribbon and search for collaboration (depreciate) in all commands).
This one still works with local files. The fact that this function was about to changed has been communicated by Microsoft for the last 6 month or so. I have received several emails about it and it was in the office 365 admin portal.
But the old function had no autosave as far as i know. If you are looking fore the automatically saving of autorecovery files. To use when office crashed to get as close to the last edits as set in the save time. That option is still there and has not changed. You can find this in the options under save. Just enable it and set a timespan.
To this end, open Word, put some junk into it. Leave it open for 10 mins, (might need 20 for the first auto save), then use Task Manager to kill Word. Then relaunch Word and see if it offers to auto recover the file? This will test the never saved file. Secondly, Create a file, put some stuff in it, save it, then add more stuff - wait 10 mins after the last save, then Task Manager to again kill Word, then launch Word from another computer and see if the edits were saved.
If yes in both cases, looks like the old functionality is still there.