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Understand the Auto Save mode in Office applications

Understand the Auto Save mode in Office applications

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Understand the Auto Save mode in Office applications

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- [Instructor] If you use the Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you may have noticed an AutoSave option up here in the top left corner. You may have even tried to turn that option on and it simply won't work. In this week's Monday Productivity Pointers, I want to clarify what that option is and how it works. It really is what you might expect, if you turn on AutoSave you do not have to hit Save as you edit your document. Every change will be automatically saved as you make them. But here's the key. AutoSave is not available if you save your files locally on your computer's hard drive. It's only available if you save your file on one of Microsoft's online file storage tools, either OneDrive or SharePoint. So this document that I'm looking at here is saved in my Documents folder on my computer. So the AutoSave option appears up a the top left of the screen, but it is turned off and it is grayed out. And it's not gonna do anything if I click on it. In some…

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