I have an old laptop with a bad hd that still works but its not reliable. If like to use it to use it to do some word processing. If i save the word doc to a flash drive and keep the doc on that drive, set word to autosave every minute, if the drive fails, my doc should still be recoverable right? Since it wasnt stored on the hdd?
I wouldn't edit your most important documents this way, but if told to save every minute, it will only make a local file of the Word document, something that can be recovered. It's not until you hit Save that saves your document.
if told to save every minute, it will only make a local file of the Word document, something that can be recovered. It's not until you hit Save that saves your document.
No. From my understanding of Word, that setting will only save a local recovery file incase Word is forcefully closed, like a crash or a shutdown. It is not until you physically press the Save button then Word replaces your original document.
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