How to Configure AutoSave Options in Office Apps

Do you know what triggers a 'version history' of the file? Is it a timer? Significant edit to the document?

how to turn on autosave on the native app? Somehow I thought it used to always be autosave all the time on the native app.

What if there is no box for disabling/enabling autosave in my Excel options? In Word options there is one..

What if I don't have the autosave checkbox in the options menu at all?

This is great. What if you want your users to be working in a SharePoint document library that is Synced with OneDrive? If you try and change the location of the document that is autosaved, it only allows you to navigate to your local OneDrive folders. You can't access the Shared OneDrive libraries. Once a document is autosaved, you don't seem to have the Save as feature to navigate to the SharePoint connector either, just the save a copy. So it would seem, your only option is to save a copy and navigate to the SharePoint library through the SharePoint sites connector. Not great as you then end up with duplicate files, one in SP and one in your local OD. Is it possible to create an experience where users are able to work easily in the shared folders?

In the offline native Word app, is there an autosave to 'PC hard drive' option? If so, which boxes do I have to check/uncheck in Word's options>save pane?

Hi there. I do hope this message finds you. In my company we only use SharePoint to share files and users can use in the live browser experience (we use Excel). So they click on a file and it opens Excel online. No problem there. I am also aware that it saves the files with every change automatically. One or two users asked me that they sometimes find they have made changes, but next time they open file, they are gone or not saved. Now currently in South Africa we have loadshedding (where the state cannot provide electricity to everyone at the same time, so what they do they have a timetable the send to you to see when power will be on or off. The issue is that it changes daily and not everyone is on the same schedule. Could it be that during these periods because of power on and of and changing that the save back to the SharePoint folder might be influenced? What I am trying to say is, while the power changes all over the place, some servers and routers might just fall of the grid? (so not a very technical person, but that is best how I can describe it. Would it be best practice then during these periods to ask users to just check if the "saved" indicator at top left is popping up confirming it has gone through and has been saved. Hope all of this makes sense. Regards. Chris from South Africa.