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I think it auto saves only for Office 365 or SharePoint based documents. It definitely doesn't auto save my documents when they are local or on a network share.

• com2kid 7y ago
  One Drive files as well. Strange it doesn't do local, but I imagine there are legacy reasons for that. Everything in Office is old. Often it is crazy well engineered, but decisions set in stone decades ago still linger on.
  • coribuci 7y ago
    > Often it is crazy well engineered, but decisions set in stone decades ago still linger on. YMMV
    • com2kid 7y ago
      Well engineered and coded decisions made in the age of single user desktops are still well engineered. Hard for someone in 1995 to predict the need for a file format that supports real time coauthoring with automatic saving and complete revision control of every edit. Esp. when the target machine the code had to run on was a 486 with a slow hard drive and a tiny bit of memory. Of course Office updated their file format, but they probably did it a little bit too soon. I always wondered what would've happened if they had waited a few more years, released in 2007, so probably design started a few years prior. Talk about just being a smidgen too early for a world of unlimited(-ish) data and always on internet connections. Oops.