Viewing File Versions in Microsoft Office 2016 with AutoRecover Feature
While working with any Microsoft Office application like word or excel, sometimes you might close the app by mistake without saving the data then we lose the data. In Microsoft Office 2016, we have new feature AutoRecover which recovers unsaved data. AutoRecover feature automatically saves the data for every 10 minutes even though we don’t save. If accidentally close the file without saving the data we can recover it from auto saved versions.
By default AutoRecover feature enabled, we can disable it by going to File, Options, and select Save tab for Microsoft Word (do same for Excel also). Under Save tab, you can find “Save AutoRecover information every 10 minutes” checkbox, and it’s checked by default as shown below.
We can change auto recovery minutes as per for our requirement. If you want, we can disable AutoRecover feature by unchecking the “Save AutoRecover information for every 10 minutes”. Here you can find one more check box “Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving” which you can enable or disable when AutoRecover feature is enabled. You can change the AutoRecover file location path by changing the “AutoRecover file location” field.
To find previous versions, go to File => Info => Select earlier versions under “Manage Document” in Microsoft Office Word 2016 as shown below.
In Microsoft Office Excel 2016, Go to File => Info => Find auto saved versions under “Manage Workbook” as shown below.
We can also browse for unsaved versions of a file by clicking on Manage Workbook or Manage Document button. Even you can find the time when file auto saved for each version. We can restore the particular version by clicking on it. It displays the AUTOSAVED VERSION ribbon as shown below.
By selecting Restore button, it displays the confirmation window “You are about to overwrite the last saved version with the selected version” as below.
If you click the
OK button, it replaces the latest file with the selected auto recover version.
