Word 2013 for Beginners Part 10: Backup, Autosave and Autorecover in Word 2013

🔥Get over 9 MS Word courses at Simon Sez IT, including training for Word 365, 2021, 2019, 2016, 2013, and more ➡️ www.simonsezit.com/course-category/word/ Get 71 hours of MS Office 2013 training. CLICK HERE: www.simonsezit.com/course-category/microsoft/ Word 2013 has many great features. Two of which are the AutoSave and AutoRecover. With AutoSave and AutoRecover turned on, you can give yourself the maximum chance of recovering your work when power fails or Word stops working. However, there is no inherent backup facility in Word, which means if you work in Word and your computer fails and you don't have a copy of those documents anywhere else, then you will lose those documents. That is why it is essential that you keep copies of the documents you create and maintain somewhere safe--saving them in the Cloud in SkyDrive, or keeping documents on external devices such as memory sticks or other external storage devices. For a more detailed discussion on AutoSave, AutoRecover, and Backup, watch this lesson. Stay in touch: StreamSkill.com: streamskill.com/ SimonSezIT.com: www.SimonSezIT.com/ YouTube Channel: bit.ly/foiItB Twitter: bit.ly/177EU5J Google+: bit.ly/11JbHdb If you enjoyed the video, please give a "thumbs up" and subscribe to the channel -) Hello and welcome back to our course on Word 2013. In this section, I’d like to talk to you about Backup, AutoSave, and AutoRecover. And I want to deal with Backup first. One of the features of Word 2013 and a feature of Word for a long time really is that it does make it easy to start creating documents, printing documents, saving them to default locations, and so on. But there is no inherent backup facility in Word. And what I mean by that is that it doesn’t make your document safe for you. If you work in Word, create documents, edit documents, print them, maybe letters, maybe business documents. If you’re computer fails, if your hard drive fails and you don’t have a copy of those documents anywhere else, then you will lose those documents. It is absolutely essential that you keep copies of the documents you create and maintain over a period of time somewhere safe and somewhere safe means somewhere other than the computer that you’re actually creating and maintaining them on. Now one great option now is to save copies of documents in the Cloud to backup to the Cloud, to backup to SkyDrive. But you also have relatively cheap ways of keeping documents on external devices, such as just memory sticks if you don’t have a lot of data or if you do have a large amount of data you might want to get yourself some sort of external storage device. External storage devices nowadays can be 500 GB, a terabyte, 2 terabytes in size, capable of storing vast amounts of data relatively cheaply. But it’s really up to you to make sure that you make those external copies. That as a part of your working routine, only if you’re dealing with personal paperwork, perhaps personal letters and so on to make sure that you take regular copies of files, Word documents, and of course other types of document that you create and maintain and keep copies of those elsewhere. There is no built-in facility in Word 2010 to make your document safe for you in the long term. However, in the short term there are the AutoSave and AutoRecover features which are what I’d like to talk about next. Now no matter how safe and secure you think that you’re working environment is things can go wrong. One of the most obvious things that can go wrong, particularly if you’re working on a PC rather than say a laptop with its own battery is that the power can fail. And if you’re halfway through doing something in Microsoft Word 2013, if the power fails and Word stops working, your file may well be left in an indeterminate state. Another thing that can go wrong is that Word itself can fail. Now my experience of more recent versions of Word is that they are very stable. But I have yet to use a version of Word that does not fail, does not get one of those not responding messages that it doesn’t it recover from. And when it’s failed, you have to stop it someway, maybe just switch the PC or laptop off. Now in order to give yourself the maximum chance of recovering of your work when failure happens and I don’t say if, I say when because it will, is to have AutoSave set. And what this entails is going into the Word Options and in the Save page right at the top in the Save documents section there is a Save AutoRecover information option. You should have that set On. I can’t really think of a situation where you wouldn’t have that set on. In the past some people have said, well if I do AutoSave it interferes with me working while it’s happening. Sorry, we couldn't fit the entire video transcription here since YouTube only allows 5000 characters

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