Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosav and automatically save all new documents on clouds by default.
The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of Microsoft 365 interiors in beta channel, which will receive this after upgrading the Windows version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) or later to the Word, which was released on Monday.
Microsoft will also roll this functionality to excel for Windows users to Windows and PowerPoint later this year.
“We are modernized the way we made files and are stored in Word for Word,” Said Raul Munoz, a product manager in the office shared services and experience team.
“Now you don’t have to worry about saving your documents: any new new or will be automatically saved at your favorite cloud destination.”
While the new feature will select the user’s onedrive account as the new feature default file location, customers will also have the option to choose a folder on their computer.
They will also be able to change how new files are made by going to the page and ‘creating new files automatically in clouds’ in the word options and how new files are made (traditional way or automatically in cloud).
When testing this new feature, the company still needs to address a handful of known issues, in which newly created documents are not automatically saved when a new word session starts, while the other is already running.
In addition, in some cases, after changing the name of a document, there may be a delay in refreshing the list of recent files. Additionally, if the “start screen shows when this application starts” the setting is disabled, the first file created after starting the word will not be saved automatically.
Those who want to test this new facility can join it Microsoft 365 Insider Program And upgrade their Word App to version 2509 (build 19221.20000) or later ..
Earlier this month, Microsoft also announced that in the end of January 2026, Microsoft 365 would stop working in older versions of office applications, dictation and reading facilities.
In May, Redmund also announced a plan to abolish the support for office apps on Windows 10 later this year and reminded customers in April that the office 2016 and Office 2019 would reach the end of extended support in less than two months on October 14, 2025.
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