How To Change Where Word 2016 For Mac Saves Autorecover

This guide is all about auto backup, auto recover a Microsoft Word saved or unsaved file. You will also see how to auto backup and get previous version of your Word document that you just saved? Backup your documents or any kind of files while working on it is very good idea but sometimes we forgot to do that or program crashed. Microsoft Office document recovery feature and option to save a previous version of word document is very handy. Create backup copy option will make a copy of old version of document file every time when you save the document. You can restore or revert back to one step old version of Microsoft Word document easily, even you have saved changes in current file.

Auto Backup Previous Version of Word Document

To change the default location for AutoRecover files, click “Browse” to the right of the “AutoRecover file location” edit box. On the “Modify Location” dialog box, navigate to the location where you want AutoRecover files saved and click “OK”. To close the “Word Options” dialog box, click “OK”. Change the setting AutoRecover Word. If you would like change the frequency with which Microsoft Word automatically saves a recoverable copy of your document, follow the steps below. The default time is set to 10 minutes. You click the File tab = Options. In the Options dialog box you click the Save option located on the left side.

Backup copy option of Microsoft Word is off by default and you need to turn it on. Follow these steps to enable backup copy option in Word that automatically backup your document every time you save it on Windows or macOS.

For Mac users

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If you are a Mac user and looking to turn on or off the auto backup file option then here is the path to that option.

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Open up the Word application on your Mac and then click the menu Word > Preferences > Save and then check the option “Always create backup copy”

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For PC users

  1. Open Microsoft Word and go to Option by clicking on File tab > Options. ( Older version users need to click Office icon left-top corner and then click button “Word Options” from menu.
  2. Now select “Advanced” option from left panel and on the right-side scroll down to find section with the name “Save” and check the option “Always Create backup copy” and you done.
  3. Now, just click Ok to save the settings.

Recover Previous Version of Word file

If you have saved your document and want to revert back to older versions. You can revert back if “Always create Backup copy” option is already enabled in Microsoft Word. To recover the old version follow these steps.

for Mac users

Click the Word menu in the top-left corner while running the Word application. Select Preferences and in the preferences screen click the File Locations option.

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Here you can find the location to where the word saving backup / autorecovery folder for the word files on Mac

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for Windows users

When you saved the document a backup copy with same name was saved in the same folder. The extension of your backup copy will be “.wbk” but you can open it directly in Microsoft Word and recover it by saving as .docx file.

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Recover Unsaved Document

Even you didn’t saved Word document manually there is a Word document recovery feature that is useful in case of power failure or Microsoft Word crashed. To recover document file simple reopen MS Word and you will see document recover panel on left-side.

You must have a look at Word’s Save documents Settings in File > Options > Save. Make sure these both check boxes are checked and set the x minutes to as lower as you want to keep saving AutoRecover information every x minutes. As you can see below in screenshot word documents will be save autorecover info every minute and keep the autosaved versions when document closed accidentally.

Allow Background Saves

Background saves is a very handy option when you save a bigger document file, this may take few seconds and you have to wait for it. But we can overcome to this delay problem and keep working on Word file while document is being saved. When “Allow Background Saves” option is On and you save your document manually this will not lock it and allow saving document in background so your work won’t disturb.

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To minimize the possibility of losing your work during a crash, here’s how to set your Microsoft Office documents to autosave every minute. This is a very fast save interval, but it will create an almost seamless backup history of your documents. This ensures that the most information you will ever lose in the event of a crash will be whatever you completed over the course of the last minute.

For Mac:

  1. In Word, go up and click the File menu item at the top of the screen > Preferences. From within this window, click Save.
  2. From here, make sure the “Save AutoRecover info” box is checked. The default number of minutes set in this box will be 10, so if you want to greatly increase your coverage in the case of a system failure, you can lower this to one minute.
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Now, the only warning about putting your save interval that low is that it may make your system slow down. If you notice your system slowing down after this change, increase it incrementally until you find a happy compromise between protection and performance.

For Windows:

  1. In Word, go to the File menu > Options > Save. From there, you’ll adjust the settings the same way we did in the Mac version.

Finally, remember that you can save your document at any time by either pressing Command+S on a Mac or Ctrl+S on Windows. You can also save any time by clicking on the disk icon at the top of your window. This is always the most reliable way to make sure your work is preserved.

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