How To Secure Your Microsoft Office Work If Windows Crashes?

Secure Your Microsoft Office Work

Something Must to Know about The Windows and The Microsoft Office

Default Microsoft Office Saving Path

If you save a word document, it will store it in “C: User > You > Your  Documents”  unless you change the saving path.

The main problem is when you have done a lot of work in Microsoft Office, Suddenly your computer crashed, or you had to install a fresh copy of windows.

“The Result Is, All Of Your Data Is Gone.”

How to Change Your Microsoft Office Saving Path?

Secure Your Microsoft Office Work
  • Choose a drive where you want to save your work except C:  (i,e: D:)
  • Please make a new folder in it (i.e., Office Work)

The File Saving Method

  1. Open any Microsoft Office document, i.e., Microsoft Word
  2. Go to “Save As” in the file menu in the top left corner.
  3. Navigate to the location path you created earlier to save in it. (Your Path D: > Office WorK)
  4. Click “Save”, and you are done!
 
 
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Finding Your File

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Now open the directory, and you can find your desired file here you sometimes saved before.

You will find the file you have just created in that folder. This folder is OUTSIDE OF C DRIVE.

Please remember, If your computer crushes or you have to install a fresh copy of the Windows, all the other Drives are safe and their data will not be deleted.

Opening Any Files From The Desktop / Create Shortcut.

You can work every time opening the file from your saved locations (Example: D > Office Work > Your File).  But if you want to open your file from the desktop, then follow the step below-
  1. “Make a Shortcut” by right-clicking the file you want to open from the desktop.
  2. Select the “Send to” option.
  3. Now select the “Desktop (Create Shortcut).
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You can show your file on your desktop now

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You can show your file on your desktop now.

Every time you will work on the shortcut on the desktop, the change will be done in your main file located in the drive D:
 
Now, if your windows crash or you must re-install new windows, your office work will always be safe.
 
Unfortunately, if your windows crash, It causes a loss of the data from drive C: But your Microsoft Office work is in drive D: now, so no tension !!!!!

Conclusion

If you have to Fresh Re-Install your windows on your PC / Laptop, No problem. You can easily install now because while installing, you have to format drive C, But your Microsoft Office work is in drive D: now, so no tension !!!!!🙂.

For more related tips, please read our post about “Tips and Tricks“.

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