How-To: Change the autosave interval in MS Word
Care to know the reason for this trivial tutorial? I was being a studious little writer and unfortunately assumed that balancing eight different applications alongside Microsoft Word would have no adverse affect on my current task [writing a short article on music piracy]. Surprisingly. No I retract that. Not surprisingly, Windows crashed and decided to take every little detail I had recently added to the paper down with it. But wait… MS Word has an autosave feature doesn’t it? That it does. To my horror the autosave feature had been checked off on the pc I happened to be working on. Do not let this happen to you. Double check your autosave feature:
- Open Microsoft Word and navigate to the Tools menu bar item.
- Select Options and choose the Save tab.
- Double check that the box next to Save AutoRecover is ticked. Feel free to change the autosave interval. Suitable interval rate for Windows users? One minute?
- Click OK.
If you’re looking for an alternative suite of productivity applications, I hear OpenOffice 2.0 is a vast improvement over previous releases.
