Hi, my normal method of working with Word documents is on my Desktop (using a MacBook), AutoSave Off. I just prefer to manage my documents from the Desktop, for various reasons. I save manually every few minutes, then once or twice a day I save to OneDrive. For the past week, I have found that the previous day's changes have been deleted from the Desktop version, though they remain on the OneDrive version. Only the previous day's changes are affected. Can you explain why this is happening?
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How are you saving to OneDrive, specifically? Note that if you are using Save As from within Word, the edits that you are doing afterwards will apply to the new version (unless you explicitly close the new version and return to your locally saved original of course).
Thanks very much for this suggestion. I have been closing the new version and returning to my locally saved original. In fact, I'd been doing the same thing for a long time without any problems. Looking back, I realise that losing the previous day's work on my Desktop version only started after I'd installed the latest update of Microsoft 365, which makes me wonder whether I should take another approach to saving my documents.
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Instead of using Save As, simply copy the document to OneDrive after having signed in to your account at https://onedrive.live.com. I think this is the safest way to overcome the issue.
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Instead of using Save As, simply copy the document to OneDrive after having signed in to your account at https://onedrive.live.com. I think this is the safest way to overcome the issue.
Thank you very much. Will do.
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