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Excel Auto Recovery Question
Recently used Excel and received the message that the Automatic Recovery has been disabled. What does this mean exactly and how can I enable it again?
Hello AShort17000,
This means Excel’s AutoRecover (which automatically saves backups) is off.
To re-enable: File → Options → Save, check “Save AutoRecover information every X minutes” and “Keep the last AutoRecovered version if I close without saving”, and ensure a valid AutoRecover file location.
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