Add an auto-save button to Office 365 and never lose work again

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If you've spent hours crafting a document, the last thing you want is to start from scratch.

Fortunately, Microsoft Office 365 now offers a way to automatically save your work How to automatically save your work in Windows How to automatically save your work in Windows automatically save? Never let that happen to you again. Read more . Best of all, you can turn the feature on or off using a Quick Access Toolbar Icon , if you know when to watch.

Add Auto-Save to the quick access toolbar

Adding an autosave icon to the quick access toolbar is easy. Just follow these five steps:

1. Start Microsoft Word, Excel, or Powerpoint.
2. Locate the small down arrow in the upper left corner of the screen.
   
3. Click the arrow to expand the list of Quick Access Toolbar customizations.
4. Click Save automatically .
   
5. Slide the switch to the On position.
   

However, the new autosave feature has a few caveats that you should be aware of:

• The feature will only work if you save the document to OneDrive. It doesn't work for locally saved documents.
• As of this writing, the feature is only available to Office 365 subscribers Introduction to Office 365:Should you buy the new Office business model? An introduction to Office 365:Should you buy the new Office business model? Office 365 is a subscription-based suite that offers access to the latest Office desktop suite, Office Online, cloud storage, and premium mobile apps. Does Office 365 provide enough value to be worth the money? Read more.
• The feature only works for newer Office document formats. For example, if you have saved files as XLS, PPT or DOC, the function will not work. Instead, you need to make sure your files are saved in the latest DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats.

Will you use this new Office 365 feature or is it too restrictive to be useful to you? As always, you can leave all your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below.