How to Fix AutoSave Not Working in Microsoft Office?

AutoSave Not Working in Excel/Word

AutoSave is one of the most useful features in Microsoft Office.

To enable this feature, files must be saved to OneDrive or SharePoint.

The files that this feature saves will be added a suffix of AutoRecovered.

However, sometimes, it is really frustrating to face AutoSave not working.

In the second part of this post, we will show you 4 solutions on that.

just follow them one by one until your problem gets fixed.

How to Fix AutoSave Not Working in Word/Excel?

Heres how to enable this feature in Microsoft Word.

Typewordin the search bar and hitEnter.

Go to theAdvancedtab, scroll down to find theAllow background savesoption and tick it.

PressOKto save the changes.

Therefore, you oughta remove password protection manually.

Go toInfo> clickProtect Document> selectEncrypt with Passwordin the drop-down menu.

In the pop-up window, delete password protection and save the changes.

Heres how to repair the installation of Microsoft Excel:

Step 1.

PressWin + Ito openWindows configs.

Scroll down to findMicrosoft Office, hit it, and chooseModify.

Choose fromQuick RepairandOnline Repairto start repairing Microsoft Office.

Here, MiniTool ShadowMaker can meet your backup needs.

Thisfree backup softwareenables you to back up files in various formats within just a few steps.

It is available in Windows 11/10/8/7.

Let me hsow you how the backup feature works:

Step 1.

Launch this tool and go to theBackuppage.

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Step 2.

InDESTINATION, select a storage path for your backup image files.

Click onBack Up Nowto start the backup.

How to use AutoRecover in Excel?

What to do when it has crapped out?

For more details, you could refer to this post.