With Autosave, if you accidently closed excel (or it crashed) you would only
lose the data entered since last save/autosave. With autorecover, I believe
this is only helpful if Excel crashes. Sometimes I might be working on a
spreadsheet, open another for reference and then close excel (instead of just
the sheet, doh!), forgetting to save changes to first spreadsheet
(temporarily thinking the prompt to save changes is for the second sheet,
which I dont want to save). I know its my own fault for not saving my work
often, and closing without saving changes, but why was Autosave changed to
autorecover? Doesnt Autosave do everything and more than Autorecover? All the
other programs I use have an Autosave, not autorecover, option that I can set
to so many minutes or changes.

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