Monday Productivity Pointers

- [Garrick] I'm Garrick Chow, and welcome to Monday Productivity Pointers. When working in Microsoft Office applications, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so on, if you wanna make sure that you don't lose your work in the event of an application or system crash, or if you just accidentally forget to hit Save when you close a document, you can come up to the File menu, go to Options, and, here, under the Save category, make sure Save AutoRecover Information Every X amount of minutes is checked, and also Keep the Last AutoRecovered Version if I Close Without Saving checked, as well.

While you're in here, you can also decrease or increase the amount of time between AutoSaves. And I'll click OK. So let's say I've been working on this document and I go to close Word, but I accidentally click Don't Save. So, in most cases, the work that I just did would be gone. But if I open up that document again, you can see the word Completely is gone here because it didn't save that change. But now if I come up to the File tab, and, under Info, I can come down to Manage Document, and here I can find Today When I Closed Without Saving.

And if I double click that, there's the version I was working on. You can see here it says Recovered Unsaved File. This is a recovered file that is temporarily stored on the computer. And if this is the version I wanna keep working on, I can just click Restore. Overwrite the last saved version. Now it's saved and I can keep working from here. Now, depending on how frequently you have Word set to save, you might not recover all of your most recent edits, but this can still be a lot better than losing a bunch of work from the past hour or so.

Alright, so that does it for this week. I'm Garrick Chow, and we'll see you next time for more Monday Productivity Pointers.