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Kyle Williams
Copper Contributor
Jul 30, 2018

Autosave Feature

Good Afternoon,   I am hoping someone can help me out. I got a new laptop and downloaded the office 365 onto the new laptop. However when I am working on my documents from one drive the auto-save f...
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Kyle Williams
Copper Contributor
Jul 30, 2018

Thanks I did look at that before posting this. There is not even an option to check for auto save under the save section.

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SergeiBaklan
Diamond Contributor
Jul 30, 2018

You don't have AutoSave with any file or only for some?

If the first, is AutoSave disabled (greyed) or you don't see it all?

 

In addition, there were couple of bugs related to AutoSave, but they are fixed for current versions.

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/autosave-is-missing-from-the-office-toolbar-9cc33369-9fb9-4e31-bb5c-af5f7a14ed82?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/autosave-is-disabled-for-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-locations-43aaaa22-2656-4697-b44b-c15ae5779b65?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB

 

Setting is here

but that's to turn it on/off by default

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    Kyle Williams
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 30, 2018

    Its on all documents and the option is not showing under my settings. I checked for updates and it said I have the most recent update installed.

     

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      SergeiBaklan
      Diamond Contributor
      Jul 30, 2018

      So, you don't have Autosave at all. And what is your Office365 subscription?

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        Kyle Williams
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 30, 2018
        Correct and my 365 is the business subscription. I had his feature on my old computer and when I installed it on this computer is did not appear.

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