Autosave not working for one particular Word document

John 1 Reputation point
2022-11-26T18:53:23.503+00:00

I have Office 2021 and the Autosave feature for my OneDrive documents is working fine except for one particular document. When trying to enable Autosave in that document a popup says that it can not autosave in the location of said document, even though it's on OneDrive.

I have tried the following:

  • Moving the document to different locations in OneDrive
  • Removing the OneDrive credentials

Running Windows 11 Pro 22H2 22621.819

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  1. Ceasar Chen_MSFT 4,391 Reputation points
    2022-11-30T03:03:47+00:00

    Hi, @John
    It is recommended that you create a new Word document, copy the contents of the file to the new Word document, and rename the file to save it in the default location of AutoSave.

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