Policy

Save AutoRecover info

If you enable this policy setting, you can specify the number of minutes that Word will wait between saving AutoRecover information for the file. To prevent Word from ever saving AutoRecover information for the file, enable this policy and set the value to '0'. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, this policy will have no effect on the number of minutes that Word will wait between saving AutoRecover information for the file. By default, Word saves AutoRecover information for the file every 10 minutes.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Word 2016 / Word Options / Save
Policy ID 16e6a1b8212c
Internal name L_SaveAutoRecoverinfo

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options\autosaveinterval

Policy notes

If you enable this policy setting, you can specify the number of minutes that Word will wait between saving AutoRecover information for the file. To prevent Word from ever saving AutoRecover information for the file, enable this policy and set the value to '0'. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, this policy will have no effect on the number of minutes that Word will wait between saving AutoRecover information for the file. By default, Word saves AutoRecover information for the file every 10 minutes.

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