


The revision pane jumps from the vertical to the horizontal position and/or disappears entirely. His position within the document jumps to the last comment he inserted 3. He complained that each time the document autosaves, one of three things happens. I can't seem to get much traction on MS TechNet either.Īn end user has both "track changes" and "show comments" enabled in a document he is editing in Word 2016 that was sent to him by someone else. What it does is save information that Word can use to try to recover your file if Word stops unexpectedly.This issue has had me absolutely stumped, so I'm calling on you wise folks here. You should also note that AutoSave does not really save your file. More frequent saves can waste time and become counterproductive. When designating an AutoSave frequency, you should probably not select a time under 10 minutes. You can select values between 1 minute and 120 minutes. Adjust the Minutes box to reflect how often you want Word to save your document.The number 10 appears in the Minutes box. Click on the Save AutoRecover Information Every check box.The Save options in the Word Options dialog box. Click on Save at the left side of the dialog box.In Word 2010 or a later version, display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. To set the automatic saving feature, follow these steps: Word allows you to protect yourself by automatically saving your work for you. But hopefully you learned a lesson when this happened. Most of them can't be printed in a nice, family-oriented newsletter. Many things spring to mind at a time like this. The list goes on, but the bottom line is that you lost the past couple hours of work. Or your three-year-old pulls the power cord out of the wall.

Or you kick the reset button on your computer. You're working along for several hours on a document, when suddenly the power goes out.
