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Office Online: Versioning + Undo
I've been running training recently on Office Online - Word Online, Excel Online and PowerPoint Online. A couple of questions I've had I'm keen to clarify: How often does versioning of documents ha...
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- Word, PowerPoint, and Excel use the same approach to autosave.
- You can use registry settings to disable autosave for one or all of the desktop applications, but I don't think this is possible for the online apps.
- The online apps seem to save new versions in the same way as the desktop apps do. This makes sense as it wouldn't be good to have different behaviors for the same functionality.
https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/Using-Office-Online-in-OneDrive-dc62cfd4-120f-4dc8-b3a6-7aec6c26b55d says that the saves happen automatically. If you look at the version history of documents you can find out how often new versions are created. I did this in https://www.petri.com/autosave-office-documents when I looked at how the autosave feature works in the desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I assume that much the same mechanism is used.
Some more detail.
- Word, PowerPoint, and Excel use the same approach to autosave.
- You can use registry settings to disable autosave for one or all of the desktop applications, but I don't think this is possible for the online apps.
- The online apps seem to save new versions in the same way as the desktop apps do. This makes sense as it wouldn't be good to have different behaviors for the same functionality.