In Office 2010, Office 2013 and Office 2016, click or tap on File -> Options. In Office XP and Office 2003 click on Tools on menu bar, then select Options.įor Office 2007, click on Office button on the top left corner, the select Word Options, Excel Options or PowerPoint Options, depends on which application you’re running.In Office XP or Office 2003 or Publisher 2007, the program has the typical menu bar, while beginning from Office 20007 for Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Office 2010 for Publisher, the programs use new Microsoft Office Fluent ribbon interface. Note that the “Options” menu location is different in different versions of Office. To enable and turn of AutoRecover feature, simply follow the following steps. To avoid such situation from happening, even though AutoRecover is enabled by default, but it’s good to ensure that AutoRecover feature is turned on and enabled for all MS Office products, especially in Word and Excel. And thus you no longer can open or access the file as it was corrupted or you never save it. However, when the power resumes, and when you run the Office program again, it may not prompt you AutoRecover pane to automatically recover the working file to its last working state before power failure or application termination. Luckily Microsoft Office programs provides AutoRecovery feature (the feature exists in most versions of Office beginning from Office XP, including Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016 or later), which able to perform auto save of the document periodically, and auto recover the unsaved lost file when you re-open the Office program that was not terminated or closed properly. If you have not save the working copy of the file, you will be in much despair. When using Microsoft Office application component products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher, you may accidentally lost the working file you’re typing or designing at if the computer suddenly interrupted and shut down due to power electricity outage, or the program accidentally crashed and terminated.