My web page also links to the Savereminder macro which can be configured to
automatically save the document if that is what you really want to do.
Personally I would like to make this sort of decision for myself.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Jay Freedman wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:47:25 GMT, "~mike~"
wrote:

Is it possible to make Word automatically save a renamed backup of
the document being worked on, say every 10 minutes to a folder of my
choice? For instance if I'm working on script.doc the backups are
saved to /script_backups/script.bak.doc


See http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm for a macro that
can save a duplicate copy to a separate location. As it is, though,
the macro doesn't fire automatically every x minutes. A separate macro
could be written to call the backup on a schedule.

Setting the AutoRecover interval and location will *not* save a backup
copy in the way you think -- if you exit Word normally, the
AutoRecover file is deleted. It's useful only if Word crashes while
you're working on the document.