#Word for mac 16.10 won't print update

– then click the “Kind” button, and select “Other…” – in the search window that appears, at “Search:” select “This Mac” ‘when you can see your Desktop’) press the CMD + F key combo on your keyboard

To search for files within ALL files on your Mac, do this : [ a big Thank You to Paul Preston for noticing this problem and for Bryan P for posting the solution on Williams : xlb (older Excel backup format), to enable Excel to recognize the file and enable it to open. The solution is to change the file extension to either. xlsx file ! trying to open it will lead to an “Microsoft cannot open this file”-error. It turns out that there’s a bug in Excel 2011 for Mac : even though the Autosave does save a file with an. Note : It is not clear if this problem is due to OSX 10.9 “Mavericks” or that it is occurring with all installations of Office 2011 for Mac. Either way, the solution is as mentioned above. – there you can navigate to Application Support–>Microsoft–>Office to find the “Office 2011 AutoRecovery”-folder you are looking for – while holding the ALT-key, click on “Library” and your personal (hidden) Library-folder will open in the Finder OPTION-key) and an extra option named “Library” will appear in the pulldown menu – when the pulldown menu appears, press the ALT-key on your keyboard (a.k.a. – in the Finder, click on “Go” in the top menu bar So if you want to access it, the easiest way to do so is : ~/Users/ username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecoveryīut there is yet another tiny hurdle to get to it : in the current version of OSX, the user’s Library-folder is a hidden folder. Nowadays, the AutoRecovery-folder is located in an entirely different location on your Mac. You might have guessed : there’s a fault in the Office 2011 Help file. I checked in the Office 2011 Preferences to make sure Auto-saving is switched on, and it is… so where did the folder go ? where are my auto-save documents ? ~/Users/ username/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 AutoRecoveryīut when I open that folder I have a “Office 2004 AutoRecovery” and a “Office 2008 AutoRecovery”-folder, but there’s no such folder for Office 2011… It told me I would be able to find the folder via this path : I forgot where to find the AutoRecovery-folder, so I used Office 2011’s build-in Help-option to get a hint. I accidentally messed up the Office documents (Word/PowerPoint/Excel) I was working on, and I didn’t save it before, so I wanted to get the auto-saved version from the AutoRecovery-folder as I’ve done before in Office 20.

#Word for mac 16.10 won't print update

UPDATE : the updated version of this post for Office 2016 / Office 365 (Word 15 / PowerPoint 15 / Excel 15) can be found here :įixed : where are my Office 365 AutoRecovery files ?