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Temporarily back up or save document and restore document in Word

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2018-12-07

Kutools for Word’s Snapshot utility provides you with the easy operations to temporarily back up or save a copy of document and restore document in Word at any time. With the Take Document Snapshot utility, a snapshot of the document is a temporary backup of the document. You can take a snapshot of document at any time and restore the document to any status (snapshot) quickly.

Temporarily back up or save document and restore document quickly

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arrow blue right bubble Click Kutools > Snapshot > Take Document Snapshot.

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arrow blue right bubble Temporarily back up or save document and restore document quickly

1. During your editing process in Word, if you backup or take a snapshot of current document, Please apply this utility by clicking Kutools > Snapshot > Take Document Snapshot. See screenshot:

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2. If this is the first time you use this utility, after clicking Take Document Snapshot, there will pop up a dialog to remind you about the snapshot. If you don’t want to pop up this window in next time, please check the Don’t show this warning message again option, and then click OK.

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3. Now, the document snapshot taking is completed. You can see the screenshots (backups) status as shown in the below screenshots. The left screenshot reveals that Kutools for Word just took one snapshot (backup) of the document, but the right one took three snapshots (That depends on your operation).

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4. If you want to restore to any backups or snapshots, please click on the specific snapshot.

Notice: All snapshots or backups of the document will be deleted after current Microsoft Word application process close.


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