Why doesn't Excel have autosave feature like Word?

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Doesn't Tools, Options, Save, Autorecovery do this?

Originally Posted by TJoeO

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What version do you have? XP and up does

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I guess they finally figured it out. I have 2000 and can't do it.

"Nick Hodge" wrote:

> What version do you have? XP and up does
>
> --
> HTH
> Nick Hodge
> Microsoft MVP - Excel
> Southampton, England
> www.nickhodge.co.uk
> [email protected]HIS
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> "TJoeO" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I have Excel 2000 -and it appears to have an autosave feature (although I
never use it). Tools/Add-Ins/Autosave.


"TJoeO" wrote:

> I guess they finally figured it out. I have 2000 and can't do it.
>
> "Nick Hodge" wrote:
>
> > What version do you have? XP and up does
> >
> > --
> > HTH
> > Nick Hodge
> > Microsoft MVP - Excel
> > Southampton, England
> > www.nickhodge.co.uk
> > [email protected]HIS
> >
> >
> > "TJoeO" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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xl2002 added an autorecovery feature that can be turned on by the user. It
saves a copy of the workbook every xx minutes (user selectable).

If excel/windows crashes, the next time you open excel, it sees that file and
asks if you want to recover from the crash.

Before xl2002, there was an autosave addin that you could use. It actually
saved the file every xx minutes (againg selectable by the user). But it wasn't
made to recover from crashes--it just saved right over the file.

Jan Karel Pieterse wrote an addin (works in any version) called AutoSafe (note
spelling).

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, not autosafeVBE.zip, for your purposes.)

Jan Karel's version will know if there was a crash and prompt you to open the
last version it saved.

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And Gord Dibben posted this:

Autosave.xla from Office 2000 or 97 will work with Excel 2002 or 2003.
If you have a previous copy, move it to your Office\Library.
To download the 97 version see here........
http://www.stat.jmu.edu/trep/Marchat/sp2001/Library.htm

TJoeO wrote:
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I never had any luck with the autorecovery in 2000 as it was an add-in and
always seemed to clash with saves and the like, causing a lot of crashes
itself.

The XP and up integrated version works great

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Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
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"JMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have Excel 2000 -and it appears to have an autosave feature (although I
> never use it). Tools/Add-Ins/Autosave.
>
>
> "TJoeO" wrote:
>
>> I guess they finally figured it out. I have 2000 and can't do it.
>>
>> "Nick Hodge" wrote:
>>
>> > What version do you have? XP and up does
>> >
>> > --
>> > HTH
>> > Nick Hodge
>> > Microsoft MVP - Excel
>> > Southampton, England
>> > www.nickhodge.co.uk
>> > [email protected]HIS
>> >
>> >
>> > "TJoeO" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> > news:[email protected]...
>> > > Self explanatory
>> > >
>> > > ----------------
>> > > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
>> > > the
>> > > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
>> > > the "I
>> > > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button,
>> > > follow
>> > > this
>> > > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
>> > > then
>> > > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>> > >
>> > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc
>> >
>> >
>> >