Office 2011 for Mac is full of useful features, including the autorecovery tool in Excel. Although crashes in Excel for Mac 2011 are extremely rare, it doesn’t hurt to make sure Excel 2011 is backing up your changes as you work. The following sections show you what to do to ensure Excel is making backups and how to retrieve the backup if you need to.
Setting up AutoRecover in Excel for Mac 2011
Take a moment to make sure your preferences automatically save an emergency backup file of your work. Before you do that, remember that AutoRecover is not a substitute for saving your files often! To set up AutoRecover, follow these steps:
I have Microsoft for MAC 2011 (latest update 14.7.1) on a Mackbook Pro. AutoRecover is not working. When I check the folder 'Library /Application Support/Microsoft. Jul 12, 2017 - Or maybe Word crashed or your laptop lost power before you remembered to save what you. Windows Mac iPhone Android. That said, if you do run into a problem with an unsaved Office file, here's how to recover it. You can set it to autosave anywhere from every one minute to every 120 minutes.
- Choose Excel→Preferences from the menu bar.
- In the Sharing and Privacy section, select Save.
- Select the Save AutoRecover Information After This Number of Minutes check box.
- Enter the number of minutes that you want between AutoRecover file saves, or use the increase/decrease control.
- Click OK.After you turn on AutoRecover, Excel saves your work at the specified interval so that you can recover in the event that the system or Excel crashes.
Retrieving an AutoRecover file in Excel for Mac 2011
If your computer or Excel crashes, you can recover your work up to the most recent AutoRecover save, but only if you turned on AutoRecover saves. Take these steps to restore any workbooks that were open at the time of the crash:
- Click the Excel Dock icon.Excel presents any documents that you’re working on that have been saved at least once. Recovered documents have (Recovered) in the title bar.
- To keep the recovered version, choose File→Save As.The Save As dialog appears. Take one of the following actions:
- To replace the existing file with the recovered version:Navigate to the file or use Spotlight to locate the existing file. Then, click the filename to change the recovered file’s name to the existing filename. Click Save to overwrite the existing file.
- To save the recovered file without overwriting the original: Select a location to save the recovered file and enter a name for the file in the text box. Then click Save.
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To discard a recovered workbook, click the red Close button to close the workbook. When prompted, don’t save changes.
To permanently remove AutoRecover files from your computer, follow these steps:
- Quit all open Office applications.
- In Finder, press Command-F.
- Enter AutoRecover in the text box.
- Select all AutoRecover files.
- Drag the files to the Trash.
- Empty the Trash.
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Microsoft Word allows you to make an automaticbackup of your working document. If the program crashes or yourcomputer accidentally loses power, the AutoRecover feature willattempt to load the most up-to-date version of your document.
Note: AutoRecover is not a replacement for savingyour document frequently, which is the only guaranteed way ofretaining a valid copy of your work.
- Enabling and using AutoRecover
- Changing the defaultAutoRecover folder
Enabling and using AutoRecover
To turn on the AutoRecover feature:
- In Word 2010, from the File menu, selectOptions. Then, from the toolbar on the left, clickSave to configure AutoRecover options. Proceed to step 3below.In Word 2007, from the Office Button menu, selectWord Options. Then, from the toolbar on the left, clickSave to configure AutoRecover options.In Word 2003, from the Tools menu, selectOptions....In Mac OS X versions of Word, from theWord menu, select Preferences....
- In the window that opens, click the Save tab, icon, orlist item.
- If it is unchecked, check Save AutoRecover infoevery:, and type a value next to 'minutes'. For example, tosave your work every five minutes, type
5
. - Click OK to make the change.
If a system or program crash causes your computer to shut down, reboot and open Word normally. Word should recognize that there is anAutoRecovered file that is newer than the last saved version of yourdocument. It will prompt you to open and save the AutoRecovered file.
If the AutoRecover function does not prompt you to open the backupfile, you may still be able to recover your work. Search your harddrive for a file called
AutoRecovery
or*.asd
. In Windows, for help searching your hard drive,see ARCHIVED: In Windows, how do I locate a file if I know itsname or its contents? Then follow the appropriate instructions below.Finding AutoRecovered files in Windows
Note: The folders containing the AutoRecoveredfiles may not be visible. To make them visible, see ARCHIVED: In Windows, how do I view hidden files?
Word for Windows saves AutoRecovered files with the name
AutoRecovery Save of filename.asd
, wherefilename
is the name of the document on which you wereworking:- In Windows 7 and Vista, the file is storedin the
UsersusernameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWord
folder (username
will be replaced by the author'susername). - In Windows XP, the file is stored in the
Documents and SettingsusernameApplicationDataMicrosoftWord
folder (username
will bereplaced by the author's username).
When you find the file, double-click to open it. Alternatively, fromWord's File menu, choose Open... and browse tothe location of the file.
Finding AutoRecovered files in Mac OS X
Word for Mac OS X saves the AutoRecovered file as
AutoRecoversave of filename
, where filename
is the name ofthe document on which you were working. The default AutoRecoverlocation is:Replace
username
with the short name of your account inMac OS X, Office version
with the version of Office youhave, and filename
with the name of the document. Ifit's not there, try searching for it with Spotlight, which you canaccess from the magnifying glass icon in the top right of theFinder menu bar. Once you find the file, drag it to theDesktop. Double-click it, or, from Word's File menu, chooseOpen... to browse to and open the file.Changing the default AutoRecover folder
To change the folder in which AutoRecovered files are stored:
Word 2010 and 2007
- In Word 2010, from the File menu, chooseOptions.In Word 2007, from the Office Button menu, selectWord Options.
- From the toolbar on the left, click Save, which willpresent you with options to customize how documents are saved.
- Next to AutoRecover file location:, clickBrowse to choose the folder where you want Word to save yourAutoRecovered files.
- Click OK.
Other versions of Word
- In Word 2003, from the Tools menu, selectOptions.... In Mac OS X versions of Word, from theWord menu, select Preferences....
- In the window that opens, click File Locations.
- Under 'File types', choose AutoRecover files and clickModify....
- Choose the folder where you want Word to save your AutoRecoveredfiles. Click OK orChoose.
- Click Close or OK.