I’m envisioning making Word docs auto-save by simulating pressing Ctrl+S every 5 minutes or so, but I can’t use AutoHotKey because that’s a third-party tool and work doesn’t allow those on the company workstations.

Auto-recovery is a joke. I have auto-recovery set to every 5 minutes already and then when my Word doc crashes occasionally, I’ve lost 45 minutes of work—and gotten no auto-recovery options at all.

For whatever reason, our work desktops do come with PowerToys installed. Is there some way I could use PowerToys to accomplish what I’m trying to do? I’ve been able to do things like this on Mac OS for over a decade. I’m surprised there’s no obvious built-in Windows ability for something like that.