Microsoft Office Autosave (and OneDrive?)

Recently, when I was in the Microsoft store troubleshooting an issue with my Surface book laptop and Microsoft Office, the tech support guy convinced me to pull my data into OneDrive.  In the same visit we reinstalled and reconfigured my office software (Office 365 home - Word, Excel, etc.)   Now my default on everything seems to be Autosave ON, which sounds good until I realized that every time I even opened up a file to view or print or make a copy, the date/time stamp on the file was updated and even doing a "restore" on the original version doesn't seem to reset that date/time back to where it was previously.  Maybe I'm not typical, but I USE those date/time stamps at times to locate items or for other reasons and I prefer that they not change unless I actually change the file.  Have I missed a setting somewhere that would make this behavior go away?

Is this related to OneDrive or just MS Office (or some combination of using both)?


Open a blank Word document. click File.

Then, in the blue column: Home/Options (all the way down the column on the left), then SAVE. You'll see all sorts of options to customize how/when MS saves.

Alternatively, there's an option on each individual file to autosave or not, but it sounds like you're looking for a universal setting.


As a work around, can you name each file (date/time) (title) as you create it?  Then you could locate each file by date/time.


joan_crystal said:

As a work around, can you name each file (date/time) (title) as you create it?  Then you could locate each file by date/time.

That would require me to rename (or make a new copy) every time I DO make a change and I don’t usually want to do that either.



ril said:

Open a blank Word document. click File.

Then, in the blue column: Home/Options (all the way down the column on the left), then SAVE. You'll see all sorts of options to customize how/when MS saves.

Alternatively, there's an option on each individual file to autosave or not, but it sounds like you're looking for a universal setting.

 Thanks! I had stumbled across some of this but will look at it more close to see if I can fine tune my settings.

I guess I need to do this in each Office program (Word, Excel, etc), right?


Probably. I only use Word, so can't tell you about the others. But if they all store in  OneDrive, they probably work the same. (I too hate OneDrive, but my company mandates it)



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