Monitor loses Word doc when sleeping.

[Baz454]

When my Mac goes to sleep the monitor follows it to sleep. When I wake the computer up I have lost all the Word docs and excel sheets from the monitor. How do I get hem to stick in place on the monitor?

[BeemerBiker]

Enable autosave for MacOS

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-autosave-6d6bd723-ebfd-4e40-b5f6-ae6e8088f7a5#Off...

[Baz454]

Thanks BeemerBiker, seems to be working fine now.

[Baz454]

Anh just like that it has started playing up again. 

Any other ideas?

[BeemerBiker]

Make sure you have autosave enabled by selecting "ON".  

This url has more info about autosave 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-autosave-6d6bd723-ebfd-4e40-b5f6-ae6e8088f7a5#Off...

please read the section about using onedrive and also about autorecovery

I do not use onedrive so when I enable autosave I get a message that I have to start using onedrive.

IMHO< the autosave is a microsoft office problem.  They want you to use onedrive and hope that you will have to start paying them to get extra space.  Apple and Acronis do the same thing:  let you easily save to the "cloud" and then expect you to start paying when you need more space.

Possible work around can be read here https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/word-documents-lost-after-computer-went-to-sl...

I would set the computer so it does not sleep automatically.  If a laptop do not close the lid.