Since a while back, there’s been a setting in Microsoft 365 that makes it possible to auto-save Word documents to the cloud. It’s a convenient feature that helps mitigate the risk of losing data in case of an app crash or system outage, and one of the many Microsoft Word tips and tricks worth knowing about if you use it often.

But you have to enable the feature per-document to take advantage of it. At least, that was the case until now. According to a recent Microsoft 365 Insider blog post , this auto-save option will soon be enabled by default for all new Word documents.

When enabled, the Word document will automatically save to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination. The benefits include:

Increased security and compliance: Files saved in the cloud are automatically protecte

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