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How To Enable Autosave Option in MS Excel

How To Enable Autosave Option in MS Excel
You are working in Excel, Word or Access in Microsoft Office 2010 and your PC is hanged by any other application or may be there some wrong happens. And you can't save your work, then don't worry. Microsoft Office has a best feature that it can AutoSave your work.
Excel includes an AutoSave feature that periodically saves your file as you work on it. AutoSave does not save data in a separate file; therefore, the AutoSave feature does not prevent file corruption. However, AutoSave protects your data in the event that Excel unexpectedly quits. When you start Excel, AutoSave is not running by default.

How to Install Autosave in excel

2. open ms excel
3. File > Excel options > Add-ins
4. Select Excel Add-ins in 'Manage'. > Go
5. Browse and select autosave.xla > Ok
6. A New tab will automatically created for autosave option. Go to that and set autosave settings.
7. Contratulations! You did it.

Note: Once you added the add-in in excel, you have to keep Autosave Add-in file at the same location. If you want to move it to some other location then you have to perform all aformentioned steps except Step1 again.

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