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
    2018-02-20T19:58:21+00:00

    Thanks Bruce,

    I've tested the auto-save, not the one-drive version, and no files are stored on my hard-drive and do not get found when I restart the applications (Word or Excel) after a failure or force-close of the apps after using them for 30 to 45 minutes, "auto-save" is set to 5 minutes in the applications.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-21T16:56:08+00:00

    I just tested Autorecovery this morning.  As you can see from the screen snip below, AutoSave is grayed out in the off position and yet I have two recovery files waiting for me.  The 2017 date reflects that I used a copy of an old document for the test.  The 2017 date is the original date of the copied document.  The time stamp from this morning (2/21/2018) accurately reflects 10 minutes from the time I opened the document and made changes.  (My Autorecovery time is set to 10 minutes.)

    My original comment from yesterday stands.  AutoSave is redundant, confusing, and it doesn't work.  OTOH, AutoRecovery is the older method which does the same thing and it still works.  Get rid of AutoSave.  Go to Feedback Hub, search for this topic by typing some or all of the summary title: "Autosave is redundant, confusing, and useless. And it doesn't work. Delete this feature."  Select the post and upvote it.  Add comments there if desired.  Why Microsoft doesn't pay attention to Forum posts but instead chooses to pay attention only to Feedback Hub is beyond me.  Don't argue, just do.  Today if you care about this issue.

    Here is the screen snip proving that AutoRecovery still works.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-27T09:57:30+00:00

    Dear Microsoft 

    My company's networking policy does not permit use of online storage services... and even if it did with the quality of internet connection at the place of my work I would still have files on my local drives. I guess I'm not the only person in the world that must work from local drives and still would like to have AutoSave enabled... so I'm asking you to find another way of encouraging us to use OneDrive rather than turning off feature that is affecting our work… especially with Meltdown and Spectre calamity and computers rebooting/ going into BSOD etc… I’ve already lost couple of days of work due to that matter… so I have couple of questions

    1. What is the logic behind disabling autosave for files stored locally?
    2. What to do if company policies are preventing from using online storage but Autosave still required?
    3. When will Microsoft stop treating it’s users as guinea pigs?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-28T20:03:19+00:00

    Umm, did you bother to read the previous post? 

    1. AutoRecover still works just as it always has. 
    2. If you think that AutoSave is a redundant, confusing, and otherwise steaming pile of BS, complain on Feedback Hub, not here.

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