Keyboard Maestro costs approx $30 but it’s the best solution to this problem. This tells Microsoft word to save the document every 2 minutes.

It will need to look something like this: Use Keyboard Maestro create a script to automatically save your Microsoft Word documents every 5 minutes.

How to Autosave Microsoft Word Documents.

Here is how to enable auto saving of files in Microsoft Word and recover old deleted Microsoft Word files if you did not have autosave enabled. Also if you have Apple’s Time Machine running on your compute you can recover old versions of Word documents that you have saved over even if Microsoft Word cannot recover them. If Microsoft Word crashed you may be able to recover your document. IF you are trying to get back an old file, Microsoft Word does have a feature called auto-recovery.

But there are some ways to mimic this functionality using a scripting program like Keyboard Maestro. This is a deal breaker if you are an OS X user wanting to use Word. Microsoft Word for OS X does not have auto save.

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