If you work in an office that uses Office 2007, then you may want to change the AutoRecover interval. This interval determines how often Office will try to recover files that have been lost or forgotten. To change the AutoRecover interval, open the Office 2007 Control Panel and click on the AutoRecover tab. Under this tab, you can set a new AutoRecover interval or modify an existing one. The AutoRecover interval you set will determine how often Office will try to recover files that have been lost or forgotten. The defaultAutoRecoverinterval is 365 days, but you can change this to any time period you like. If your office has more than one computer in it, then each computer must have its ownAutoRecoverinterval setting. If your office does not use Office 2007 and your computer crashes, then the AutoRecover interval will still be set to 365 days by default.
You can easily change the interval when data is saved to have it save more often. This is useful if you’ve been having problems with your system recently.
We’ll be using Microsoft Word for this example, but the options exist in all of the Office applications. Just click on the Office button in the top left corner, and choose “Word Options”.
Click on Save in the left menu of the Options dialog box, making sure to check the “Save AutoRecover information” checkbox.
Here you can choose how often you want to save autorecover information. Don’t make the interval too short, but it’s really up to you. I changed it to 2 minutes for this example. Click the OK button when you are done.
One of the things to keep in mind is that if you are working on larger documents, setting the AutoRecover to something like 1 minute might start to slow your computer down, since saving a large document in the background every minute will tax your computer.
