AutoSave switch greyed-out.

Anonymous
2017-08-04T15:40:16+00:00

A couple of days ago, I noticed that the save icon at the top of the Excel window in version 1707 of Office 365 has been moved a little to the right because a new greyed-out AutoSave button has appeared. It is set to "Off". 

Does anyone know how to turn it on?

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Anonymous
2017-08-04T16:25:12+00:00

this is from:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-AutoSave-6d6bd723-ebfd-4e40-b5f6-ae6e8088f7a5?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

"AutoSave is enabled when working on a file that is saved to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online. If the file is saved to another location, then AutoSave is disabled. This will happen if your file is on a SharePoint On Premises site, a file server, or saved to a local path like C:.

There are other reasons AutoSave could be disabled as well. For example, if your file is in an older format like .xls, .ppt, or .doc., it will be disabled. It will also be disabled if your presentation is in slide show mode, or if your workbook contains password protection. If AutoSave is disabled, you can always hover over the AutoSave switch and a tooltip will tell you why it's off."

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-29T03:47:47+00:00

    I'm replying to tell my troubles as well. I have been using word for 6 years now generally without an issue. Now, today, 1/28/2018 autosave is disabled because I need to either "save it in onedrive or sharepoint online to enable this feature" except for the fact that every single document I open/edit/save is saved to my onedrive. My onedrive has all my school stuff in it and word now knows to save all my stuff to onedrive. I had to log into onedrive on chrome, open the document, then choose to open the document in the word application on my computer. Doing that, somehow, suddenly enabled autosave. Before anyone asks: my desktop is always connected to the internet, the onedrive program is enabled, in my menubar, and always syncing, there are no updates i need, and the file is a docx. This seemed to happen when I was done on my laptop, i saved my document and after it uploaded to onedrive i shut my laptop, i went to my desktop, found the file i was working on previously (already synced of course because onedrive) and when i opened on desktop boom, no autosave. Its good i caught this early because this post would be much different if i lost an entire document.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-11T20:52:48+00:00

    Yep, that worked. Open it online, Select Open in Powerpoint. A message pops up proudly telling me that Autosaved is now on. 

    Pretty typical UX for Microsoft - counter-intuitive and bass ackwards.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-15T05:30:38+00:00

    When will the idiots at MS realise that most people (especially professional users) do not want to constantly directed to the internet or cloud when performing a function.

    WE don't want to backup to the cloud unless WE decide to, when it suits US.

    WE don't want to to search for images online from an Office program - that's what Google is for (or iStock, or Getty, etc)

    These should be last choice, buried options, not ones pushed on you every time WE try to do something.

    And as the MS Cloud advertisment - what is that awful accent the narrator punished my ears with? Please use someone who speaks English next time.

    I contacted MS today regarding the safelink protection snafu and have virtually have decided to start switching over to using gmail in replacing Hotmail as my default. MS or any vender for that matter should force the consumer/end-user to accept a form of protection without explicit permission form the owner's email. This is something I would expect from communist countries, to force end-users without a choice.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-15T05:22:59+00:00

    When will the idiots at MS realise that most people (especially professional users) do not want to constantly directed to the internet or cloud when performing a function.

    WE don't want to backup to the cloud unless WE decide to, when it suits US.

    WE don't want to to search for images online from an Office program - that's what Google is for (or iStock, or Getty, etc)

    These should be last choice, buried options, not ones pushed on you every time WE try to do something.

    And as the MS Cloud advertisment - what is that awful accent the narrator punished my ears with? Please use someone who speaks English next time.

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