Autosave Option Disabled - Office Mac

Anonymous
2019-10-20T13:08:46+00:00

All my files are saved on OneDrive folder (which is synced). When I open a word file from my OneDrive folder, the option to AutoSave is disabled and I can see a msg "Saved on your Mac". How is that, if it is on Onedrive and syncing ??? I have, then, to save a new copy, select Save Online, chose the SAME FOLDER, chose another name, and then, the Autosave option is enabled. Does anyone know how to solve it?

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Anonymous
2019-12-08T09:51:31+00:00

I found the autosave function of my office 365 works again today.

I did nothing except keeping my office 365 up to date in "insider slow" channel.

mac OS: 10.15.1

onedrive: 19.222.1110.0004(Standalone)

office 365: 16.33(19120401)

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-10-21T09:05:12+00:00

    Same issue here.

    With Word (v.16.30) on my iMac, updated to Catalina, all my OneDrive word documents are 'read only' (despite not being under their file properties) and I can't see an ideal workaround.

    However with my MacBook Pro, also updated to Catalina but running Word v 16.29.1 everything still works fine. Therefore it's likely to be a bug in Word v.16.30.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-21T08:19:14+00:00

    Hi!

    That is the same issue I am facing which started after updating to Catalina. It must be a bug.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-20T16:16:40+00:00

    Hi MiltonMarceloAs! I'm Stephen, an Independent Advisor here in the Microsoft Answers Community.

    Here is Microsoft Office site that might help you to enable the auto save in One drive.

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/autosa...

    Please feel free to reply to this message. I'm willing to help you with your concern.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-10-20T15:54:03+00:00

    Hi, thank you for your help, but all the folders are saved on One Drive. When I use the command "Save As" on Word, I save on the same folder, same file name, but I just chose to Save Online on Word, and then I can use Autosave. But if I open directly from my OneDrive folder, the Autosave option is disabled.

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