Actually I work a lot with Office Documents on SharePoint in my job and for each of them “automatic saving” is on, so you never have to worry about anything. Just close the application when you’re done and your work is always up-to-date.
Auto-saving works great except when I’m using an existing document as a template to make a new one only to remember 45 minutes in that I forgot to disable auto-save or make a copy to start with and the original document is gone.
Oh yes, I had this too. Templates filled with random content from various team members. Now we switched to dotx templates to avoid this kind of situation.
If you turn off a few of Microsoft’s more insane tracking in the privacy settings, it disables the autosave “feature”. The autosave fucked up version tracking badly enough that it was nice to have a global kill button.
I have found that turning off most new “features” that Microsoft makes recently is usually for the best.
No, thanks! ;-)
Actually I work a lot with Office Documents on SharePoint in my job and for each of them “automatic saving” is on, so you never have to worry about anything. Just close the application when you’re done and your work is always up-to-date.
Auto-saving works great except when I’m using an existing document as a template to make a new one only to remember 45 minutes in that I forgot to disable auto-save or make a copy to start with and the original document is gone.
Oh yes, I had this too. Templates filled with random content from various team members. Now we switched to dotx templates to avoid this kind of situation.
MS disabled the auto-save function for anything on a local disk, which is necessary for me because I use *gasp* version control software.
If you turn off a few of Microsoft’s more insane tracking in the privacy settings, it disables the autosave “feature”. The autosave fucked up version tracking badly enough that it was nice to have a global kill button.
I have found that turning off most new “features” that Microsoft makes recently is usually for the best.
Makes sense. You wouldn’t want to hammer that file onto disk every second.
Yes I do. I made a change. Save it. My disk can take it.
in good software autosave happens with a slight delay of 10 seconds or so. It’s really not uncommon.