Karren

JK's autosafe is not the same as autorecovery.

You can store the incremental backups in a folder of your choice and then dump
them to the Recycle bin for you to recover the latest from the list after you
have closed the file.

Autorecovery does not allow that.

See Dave's post about downloading AUTOSAVE.XLA


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:37:03 -0800, "karrenb"
wrote:

Ok Nevermind using Autosafe. It is simply the same as AutoRecovery. CAn
anyone help me with an autosave program??????

"karrenb" wrote:

AUUUGGGGG, I always used autosave in both word and excel. I too have multiple
files open at the same time. Today, someone working on my computer closed
excel and said no when asked to save. As a result all of my changes were
lost. I had thought that by setting autorecovery I was safe, but since this
was not a crash but a clean exit, my work is lost. AUTORECOVERY is NOT better
than auto save. WHY oh WHY did Microsoft take this away!!!!

HELP Please. I will try the suggested Jan Karel version. My IT guy hates us
trying stuff like this, but I desperately need an autosave function.

Karren



"Nick Hodge" wrote:

Claude

This was an add-in in XL2000 and was incorporated and vastly improved in
2002/3. I could never successfully stop the old add-in from crashing excel
so worked without back-up support

The new version can have it's duration set via ToolOptions...Save to
different times , default - 10 mins. What Excel then does is save a temp
file at the duration to the location shown on the same tab. If you close
excel and no error/crash has occurred then excel wipes the temp file. If
you don't close Excel then you can go to this location, add an .xls
extension to the file you find and it will open.

The new version is *vastly* improved and knowing the above, is there any
reason to need the old add-in?

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
www.nickhodge.co.uk
HIS


"Claude J Johnson CPA Australia" <Claude J Johnson CPA
wrote in message
...
I have just upgraded from excel 2000 to excel 2003 I have always set
autosave
to 5 minutes in case I press the wrong button as I did tonight. I also had
autosave set to save all open workbooks
I am a heavy user of excel and often have many workbooks open at the one
time