Ever had one of those days when you are working on a really important document, under a hectic deadline and you PC shuts down because of a power failure or the battery on your laptop has died.

When you finally up and running again you discover that half your work has not been saved well Microsoft Office has a powerful feature of saving your document automatically after a specified time intervals. By default, Office automatically saves your current document after every ten minutes but you can change this time. This Auto save feature saves the data in the same file. However, Auto Save protects your data in the event that Office unexpectedly quits.

Follow the steps below to ensure your work is always saved:

Open a Office document and then click on the Office Button

Click on the Word options (in Excel it will be Excel Options)

Click on the Save tab (on the left hand side)
Now you can choose when you would like your Auto Save to "save"
I have it running every 2 minutes.

Click the Ok button of dialog box to finish the process.