Recently my UPS, supplying power to my PC, gone faulty and I didn’t had a replacement, while it had gone for repair. Yesterday, while I was writing a report in MS Word, the electricity got interrupted and the file I was working on, got corrupted. When the power resumed and I started back, I was not able to access that file as it was corrupted due to sudden failure of power.
This was a new thing to me, because in my earlier PC, whenever such a thing happened, I was able to recover my corrupt file, thanks to the Autorecovery feature of MS Word. I was intrigued, why it has not happened this time.
On further exploration, I found that the autorecover feature, which is set to ON by default, was OFF in my machine. So, I decided to write a post on this so that the readers of this blog may not find themselves in a situation like me.
How to set the AutoRecover feature in Word:
- Go to Tools menu, click Options.
- Click on the Save tab.
- Check the “Save AutoRecover info every” check box.
- Set the time to 5 minutes (or any time period as per your liking)
- Click on OK, and you are through.
But remember, Autorecovery function is not a replacement of Save function. For that you have to use the usual procedure, or Ctrl+S.
January 28th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
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