There aren't able to automatically back up their changes because they don't use OneDrive.Įven worse, most have probably been head-faked by Microsoft into thinking that they're safe because AutoSave displays as automatically turned on in Preferences. Even assuming that all Google users are backed up to Google's servers, 2/3 of users out
****, are you kidding me? According to the '' website, OneDrive has less than 9% of the 'File Sharing' market, well behind DropBox, Box, and GoogleDrive. I licensed Office 365 from GoDaddy, so I called their tech support line, and they gave me the incredible story that AUTOSAVE ONLY WORKS WHEN YOU STORE YOUR DOCUMENTS ON MICROSOFT ONEDRIVE - not natively on the Mac or on DropBox, which I've used for years. This is true not just of Excel, but Word and Powerpoint as well.
The document title bar, AutoSave displayed as 'OFF' and was grayed out to the point of imperceptibility. I first went to confirm that AutoSave was turned on, and found 'Turn on AutoSave by default' checked on the Preferences/Save panel. Needless to say, I was pretty pissed off, and went to research how Microsoft had managed to lose all my data. I had to spend the rest of the day re-creating Even though Auto-save was turned on in preferences, I lost ALL the work- Auto-recover did not capture any of the changes, either. Recently I lost power in my home after working on a spreadsheet for over three hours.
