In Office 2010 you can find it from the File > Info tab from there Click Manage Versions > Recover Unsaved Workbooks. The Unsaved file location is a little different. This is because %UserProfile% is simply a universal Windows code that will take you to your Windows user profile folder.Ģ. I n my example, this %UserProfile% would translate out to: C:UsersgrooveDexter. *In Office 2007 and Office 2003 as well as Windows XP, the location may vary. Once there, you can visit the Save tab and lookup the locations as shown in the screenshot below. You can find these locations for yourself if you go to the File > Options menu in Office 2010. %UserProfile%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftExcel.Quickly, here’s how I found the three folders in Microsoft Excel 2010 since the process is relatively similar for Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010.įor Excel 2010*, the ‘ default save’ and ‘AutoRecover’ locations are the following: Below you will see how I labeled the path and pasted the link so I wouldn’t forget what was what etc. The best way to remember their exact location is to Copy and Paste it into an open Notepad. Once you find these locations, make a note of them. We need to find three different locations for each application within Office 2010. The first step is to find the location where Office stores everything. How To Link Dropbox to Microsoft Office and Never Lose Documents Ever Againġ.
*Free Dropbox accounts only save 30 days of previous versions however, paid versions save files forever. The possibilities are nearly endless.īefore we get started, I want to make sure you understand that although I’m going to show the tip using Office 2010, this trick should work for any application out there that uses temporary files or an Autosave folder including previous versions of Microsoft Office. Want to go back to your presentation as it looked at 7:55 pm? No problem! Or maybe you like the 7:54 pm version better. For instance, if you have AutoRecover/AutoSave set to 1 minute save intervals, you could technically go back to ANY time for ANY document you’ve ever worked on once you get this setup. Using this technique, you can open files and look at revisions or recover previously deleted/lost files. So if we combine Dropbox and the default behavior of Microsoft Office and its Autosave feature, we can sync and backup the Microsoft Office documents as you write them real-time. You see, Dropbox has a groovy feature that saves previous versions of files synced in your Dropbox folder for 30 days* including deleted files. At the heart of our groovy Tip is, of course, Dropbox.
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