How to enable AutoRecover in Office for documents you store on your PCĪutoRecover is a legacy feature that allows you to control the time when you want to auto-save a document.
In this Windows 10 guide, we walk you through the steps to configure when Office applications should save the contents of a document automatically. Thankfully, to reduce the chances of losing your work, the suite of Office applications provides two options (AutoRecover and AutoSave) to save Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents at various intervals automatically. Losing work you've done on a document because of crashes, or if you accidentally close the file without saving, can be very frustrating.
