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yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoMicrosoft Word literally removed the ability to autosave. Your document is no longer automatically saved as you type, unless you pay for cloud backup. This would be hilarious if it weren’t so unbelievably dumb.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
Is that true? I can’t really confirm that one myself as everywhere I use Word it is logged in with a license.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’m a professional writer who uses Word (out of habit). Let me assure you that it’s true. Autosave does not work on local storage or iCloud — only Microsoft OneDrive.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
If what I’m reading in Microsofts support forums are correct, there was never an auto-save-to-local function in Word though. There was the auto-recover, but that’s not the same and I believe still exists.
Auto-save seems to have been added as a onedrive-only feature.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I was using it for years and they literally have an autosave feature on iOS right now. You can stop typing and force-close the app and it’ll save it to your iCloud (not OneDrive) flawlessly.