Autosave does work on my Window PCs - any file opened comes up with autosave on. As to why autosave appeared for the local Office 365 OneDrive files and then disappeared after the Mojave update, I have no idea and it appears no one else does. Not a big drama as you can always open and work on the online file (or choose you local file) through File>open. It will automatically update to the online OneDrive after each manual save and reflect the file history. If opening a local Mac OneDrive file you need to save the file periodically as we all did before OneDrive came on the scene.

DOCX files are smaller, better formatted and optimized for the latest Word releases, making it much less likely that Word will crash, especially for larger documents.Autosave only works when you open the file through your online OneDrive and not through the local OneDrive file saved to your Mac. If you’ve updated to a newer version of Word, you may need to convert your Word documents to a newer document format like DOCX. Saving a file to OneDrive (or using Word Online) will help to make sure that your Word files are safe as you make changes to it, making it much easier to recover if your PC fails. Knowing how to recover a Word document can help you save hours of your time, but the best fixes are the ones you put in place before you start working. Planning And Creating Better Documents In Microsoft Word If a hard drive fails, you can quickly load up Word files from your OneDrive cloud storage instead, saving you time. It may help you recover Word documents if the local file is lost or damaged, however, especially if your PC fails and you’re forced to reinstall Windows.

Using OneDrive doesn’t provide a guarantee that future Word documents won’t or can’t become corrupted.

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