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Word online - autosave
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Tue 2 Dec 2014, 09:12Delegate Barrie said...
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Word online - autosave
Hi - Some of our employees use word online as part of their )365 subscription, currently it automatically saves all activity to OneDrive for business. Can the autosave functionality be disabled?
Tue 2 Dec 2014, 09:49Trainer Jens said...
RE: Word online - autosave
Hi Barrie,
Thank you for the forum question.
To change the auto save settings in Word you will need to under the FILE tab in the ribbon to click OPTIONS and to the right SAVE. Here you will find the auto save settings and the destination folder for your auto saves.
I hope this will solve your issue.
Kind regards
Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer
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Tue 2 Dec 2014, 10:12Delegate Barrie said...
RE: Word online - autosave
Hi
Thanks for your response. Word online does not have an 'options' under the file menu
Thanks
Tue 2 Dec 2014, 16:59Trainer Jens said...
RE: Word online - autosave
Hi Barrie,
Sorry about my answer earlier today but it is a bit confusing because after Google the issue some installations of Office 365 have the options I mentioned.
But more confusing is that Microsoft on their website saying that there is no auto save in Word On-line.
When you refer to auto save do you mean that Word save your changes every 10 minutes for recovery or do you mean something else??
Kind regards
Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer
Tel: 0207 987 3777
Best STL - https://www.stl-training.co.uk
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Tue 2 Dec 2014, 17:11Delegate Barrie said...
RE: Word online - autosave
For example, if I was to go to file there would not even be a manual save option, a message saying 'where has the save button gone' it goes on to explain there is no save button because Word is automatically saving the document. This is very typical of the Microsoft on-line suite, however, my question is, can we disable this automatic save and revert back to manual saving? We do not necessarily want our employees saving all documents.
Fri 5 Dec 2014, 13:51
Edited on Fri 5 Dec 2014, 13:51Trainer Richard said...
RE: Word online - autosave
Hello Barrie,
We have gone back to the trainer that was with you on the day's training at the end of Oct, and this is his response to your question:
"The problem, I believe, is that you are talking about Word Online rather than the full-fat Word desktop. This would be the version of Word that is free to use by all your users. Only some of them have the full desktop paid-for version.
Word Online automatically saves changes to the Office365 website, I.e. OneDrive, where the document was opened from or that the user is logged into under their Office365 credentials. The manual Save or Save As functions are NOT available and this cannot be changed. The only way of doing a manual save is by clicking on the Open in Word button on the toolbar but obviously this will only work if the user has Word desktop installed.
So, in summary, I think you are out of luck on this. Microsoft do not allow the automatic online save to be disabled."
Kind Regards,
Richard
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