Everybody has been there. You’re banging out the perfect Word doc, and the power cuts out before you can hit save. Last week’s Microsoft Word update makes that worry a thing of the past, as long as you have internet while you’re working.

As of October 8, 2025, Microsoft has begun automatically syncing your Word docs to your Microsoft OneDrive cloud account. You can turn it off, but unless you have a very serious distrust of the cloud, I’d recommend you keep it turned on, because it’s a handy guard against corrupt files and power cuts.

what it is and is not

This isn’t a backup service for if you accidentally delete a file on your computer. If you delete it there, it’ll delete it on iCloud, too. It’s not unlike how an Apple user, if they enable iCloud, has their files automatically copied

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