

📌 Step 2: Disable AutoRecovery from Excel Options However, if you are not an MS Office 365 user, and you mean auto recover by the word ‘ AutoSave’, and actually want to turn off the auto recover feature as you don’t want to save your file’s minute-by-minute changes, then you can do that by applying the following steps. Turn Off AutoRecovery Feature to Stop Excel from Saving Your Work Automatically: Is this option working for you? Please let us know in the comment box. It demands restarting Excel after selecting or unselecting the option to make it happen. However, we are showing it if it works for you. See the following image.īesides, we have found an option to turn off autosave from Excel options, which is not working properly on our part. Do you see the AutoSave button in the upper-left corner of your worksheet window? If it is turned on, then click again on it. You can turn off this feature with just a single click. We will see how to turn off both of them. And the other traditional autosave feature works for auto-recovery. One needs an internet connection to work with it. As you turn it on, it will open a copy of your file in the cloud and you can recover each of the versions of your last file version using this feature.īesides, older versions (all the newer versions too) have a built-in AutoSave feature which can be enabled/disabled from Excel options (we will see it later).Īs we see, there are two different autosave features in newer Excel versions. It is available in the latest version of MS Office like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Conclusion What Is Excel AutoSave Feature?ĪutoSave is a new feature of Microsoft Office.
