Autorecovery was added in xl2002. (Maybe a typo in your post???)

If you still have a copy of the autosave.xla from the old pc (xl97 or xl2k),
then they'll work with xl2002+.

Farmboycharlie wrote:

I have been using "Excel" for nearly 20 years.
I soon found that the "autosave" fuction, which you could set up once at the
outset, was a real asset.
Then with Office 97 you had to set autosave every time you opened excel. A
real pain, and a retrograde step. But it was still there.
Now I find, having "progressed" to Office 2000, that autosave has apparently
disappeared, to be replaced by autorecover. Which, I don't think, unless I'm
being really stupid, does the same job at all.
How can I autosave??? Why does Microsoft take away useful functions, and
make it more difficult? As a farmer, flower, herb and veg grower, I'm
constantly abandoning work-in-hand on the computer to deal with situations,
and we have a slightly unreliable power supply. . . .and no, the answer is
not an un-interruptible supply!
Charlie Bransden

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Dave Peterson