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How to autosave an excel file to Dropbox every 10 min
I just spent two hours on an excel file only to have excel crash before i saved it and lost my work. I am using MS Excel 97-2004 on a MacBook Pro and right now have to manually save all work. How can I set up MS Excel/Word/PPT to auto save every 10 minutes to my Business's Dropbox account? I want to be able to work without having to manually save my file every few minutes.
Thanks.
Hello slstewart249
There isn't a way for Dropbox to do this but as I understand it there is an auto-save feature in Microsoft Excel. I believe most versions have this. Take a look at this article https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-autosave-and-autorecover-to-help-protect-your-files-in-case-of-a-crash-551c29b1-6a4b-4415-a3ff-a80415b92f99
or https://www.justanswer.com/computer/1ay5s-turn-off-autosave-feature-excel.html
Hopes this helps
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I think your hypothesis is correct. Microsoft Word will also not autosave anywhere except to Onedrive or Sharepoint.
"We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."
Hey
A bit after the event, but MS appears to have removed the "File, Save, Options" functions from the menu now and no comparable Option in "Preferences" on the Macbook - anyone know where this function has been moved to to permit Customising where MS Files can be saved to know other than in OneDrive (which sucks for long file names)?
