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Excel 2003 Auto Save
Why have microsoft got rid of the very useful autosave function on Excel 2003?
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They didn't, Manders. They just moved it to the Tools--Options, Save tab.
************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "manders" wrote in message ... Why have microsoft got rid of the very useful autosave function on Excel 2003? |
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I thought that was merely an auto recover in case of crashes. I doesn't seem
to actually save the worksheet in its existing place every x minutes as the old auto save did. Mandy "Anne Troy" wrote: They didn't, Manders. They just moved it to the Tools--Options, Save tab. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "manders" wrote in message ... Why have microsoft got rid of the very useful autosave function on Excel 2003? |
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manders
As you have found out, there is no Autosave in XL2002 and 2003 as there was in earlier versions. Autorecovery from ToolsOptionsSave is it. This is not the same as Autosave which made true incremental saves at intervals and alerted you before saving. Autorecovery just saves a temporary file which it deletes if Excel closes normally without incident. BTW.....Dave Peterson reports that he tried an earlier version of Autosave.xla in XL2002 and it seemed to work fine. I have also tried the Autosave.XLA from XL97 and does the job. To download the 97 version go here..... http://www.stat.jmu.edu/trep/Marchat/sp2001/Library.htm In addition to the above......Jan Karel Pieterse has an addin called AutoSafe which also doen't alert before saving. It doesn't overwrite the existing workbook when it saves. It saves to a user selectable folder. And when it's done, it either deletes these backups (or puts them in the recycle bin). And the user can always restore the backups from the recycle bin. http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm (look for AutoSafe.zip) Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:50:06 -0700, "manders" wrote: Why have microsoft got rid of the very useful autosave function on Excel 2003? |
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