However, after doing so, we found that we were no longer able to turn AutoSave on at all. Drives you a bit mad!’ I returned to take another look and started by reinstalling MS Office 365 to ensure that we had the latest version with all the required updates. I soon received a text message from my client, telling me that ‘… every 5 or so seconds it flickers (saving I think) but it stops you writing and you have to click on the screen again to continue to type. However, this wasn’t the end of the story. We then followed the steps described, saving the document in the correct manner to OneDrive as an online location (not to the OneDrive folder in Finder), and found that now we were indeed able to turn AutoSave on. The client wasn’t actually signed in to OneDrive, though she did have the app on her Mac, so the first step was to sign in with the same Microsoft account she’d used to activate her Microsoft 365 product. You may need to do this should you accidentally save over a document or have some other reason to revert to an older version. Not only does saving to OneDrive provide AutoSave functionality but it also means that you can revert to previous versions of documents. This is in fact a feature of Microsoft 365. Upon reading the thread in the Microsoft Community I realized that, in order for AutoSave to work, it’s necessary to be saving the document to OneDrive. And nothing happens when I touch the toggle button-no response at all. I’ve checked my Preferences Autosave should be on and working. “In Word for Mac, Autosave is now displayed as an option in the menu bar, but mine is stuck in Off.

As I began to look into the issue, I found a user online who was having exactly the same problem.

How do you turn on autosave in word