How Autosave in Word works with NetDocuments.

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AutoSave files stored in the Cloud by default in Word

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-autosave-6d6bd723-ebfd-4e40-b5f6-ae6e8088f7a5#:~:text=AutoSave%20is%20enabled%20by%20default,Copy%20before%20making%20your%20changes.

This refers to items in OneDrive and SharePoint and not NetDocuments.

The important setting is right below.  “Save AutoRecover Information every VALUE minutes

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I have this feature turned on, so it saves my Word document every minute.

 

I have opened up Notes –  4881-1696-5667 in Word.

 

If I go to “C:\Users\craig\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word” I can see the Word Document in AutoRecovery.

 

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On my windows computer, I manually killed my copy of Word to stimulate a Word Crash.

Once I opened up Word again, I got the following message:

 

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I clicked Save and my changes went back into NetDocuments.