How to create/make backup files/copies of workbooks in Excel?
If you make multiple errors in a large Excel workbook, repeatedly pressing the Undo button is not the most efficient correction method. Instead, creating backup versions of your workbook can be a more effective strategy. This article will guide you through several techniques to generate backup copies of your active workbook, allowing for quick and convenient restoration whenever necessary.
- Make a backup file of the active workbook with Excel's AutoRecover command
- One-click to make a backup file of the active workbook with Kutools for Excel
Make a backup for the active workbook with Excel's AutoRecover command
By default, Microsoft Excel will automatically back up an active workbook, so you can restore the active workbook with AutoRecover files.
- Step 1: Click File.
- Step 2: In the Excel Options dialog box, scroll down to the Save workbooks section in the Save category.
- Step 3: Modify the AutoRecover settings according to your needs.
You will find out AutoRecover versions of the active workbook in the location folder, and restore the active workbook with these versions.
- It will back up the active workbook every N minutes according to your settings.
- You can only restore to the last backup version because all former versions are replaced with the latest version.
One-click to make backup files of the active workbook with Kutools for Excel
Kutools for Excel's Tack snap tool can help you make backup versions of active workbooks as snapshots with a single click.
Just click the Kutools > View > Snap, and it will back up a version of the active workbook immediately. See screenshot:
If you have made backup versions of the active workbook, you will view the backup versions list by clicking Snap. See screenshot:
Click one of the backup versions, and the active workbook will restore to the status when you make this backup version.
- Users could not use this utility if they had never saved the current workbook.
- You can make backup versions at any time, and make multiple backup versions.
- All backup versions of the active workbook will be clear if you close the active workbook.
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