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Word docs won't Save As to OneDrive
tuckersmyth While you have AutoSave turned on the current document will continue to be updated and versioned.
Mike WilliamsIn my MS Office Home and Business 2019 version of Word the "Save AutoRecover information every 10 minutes" is checked and "Keep the last AutoRecover version if I close without saving" is also checked.
These settings haven't changed and Word continues to behave as it always has when saving documents outside of OneDrive.
But very recently this problem began to happen when attempting to use Save As with Word documents kept on OneDrive.
It's not happening with Excel files on OneDrive. Save and Save As work as before.
Something happened, maybe due to an update, and now when I open and make changes to a Word doc that resides on OneDrive I do not get a Save prompt when I close the file (and I do it inside of 10 minutes). The changed document gets saved automatically without asking me whether I want to save the changes or not (once again, in less than the 10 minute AutoRecover setting).
Something is broken.
- "Save AutoRecover information" is not the same as AutoSave. In settings AutoRecover is a distinct option below the option to "AutoSave files in the Cloud by default in Word".
Look at the AutoSave toggle at the right hand end in the application title bar.Mike Williams Thanks for your reply Mike. I am working in a version of Word in MS Office Home & Business 2019. I am sure things look different in MS (Office) 365 or in newer versions of Office and Word.
But when I open a Word document, there is the title of the document at the very top, and I see no AutoSave toggle to the right. There is my MS account sign-in and the usual Ribbon display option settings and Max, Min, Close. That's it. Maybe I am misunderstanding you.
And in this version of Word there are no "Settings" per se that one would access via the little gear icon.
There is only the File menu item that allows you to access Word Options, and from there a Save window. In that area is where I find the AutoRecover settings. But nothing termed AutoSave.
Once again, I appreciate your attempting to help me but I am not seeing what you are referencing.
Should I be using Windows 10 Settings to access AutoSave? Or perhaps this is a OneDrive Setting.
The crazy thing is that this just started malfunctioning recently. The problem came out of nowhere. It's not happening with Excel files or anything else, only Word files.
I suppose an update could have brought this all about.
But I have moved critical business related files over to Google Drive now because Save and Save As aren't working for me in Word on OneDrive anymore.
Is it possible to do a video demonstrating this.. Its kind of hard to undestand.- I am making this too complicated.
Simply put Word files (Office 2019) when opened in OneDrive won't ask me to "Save" or "Don't Save" when I close the file.
The file just closes with the changes saved.
And also the "Save As" option won't allow me to preserve the original file when editing the Word doc in OneDrive.