MS Office macOS – How to See or Change Microsoft Account

This worked for me:

You may wish to update your Normal template as well. To do so:

• Open the Normal.dotm template (Note: You MUST navigate to the Normal template using the File menu in Word, and choose "Open". Don't try it from the Finder or you will make a copy of Normal each time.)
• Close all other documents (this is important...if you don't, Word holds a hidden instance of the old version open).
• Change the paper size.
• Add and remove a space from the text (to force Word to save the document)
• Save the Normal template. (If Word prompts you for a file name, you did not open the file correctly and you now have a copy that is not a template. Cancel out and start again...)
• Close Word.

Should be good when you re-open.

This is not auto-save however. This simply sets the interval at which Excel will generate an auto-save file should there be a crash. If you close without saving, this file is immediately deleted. If the crash doesn't meet Microsoft's definition of a crash, the file is deleted. If you don't open Excel properly the next time, the auto-recover won't show and the file will be deleted.

What most people want, myself included, is a true autosave. Once you create a file, name it and save it once, it will continue to save it again at a set interval. Microsoft does not offer this option.