Office 365 question for an IT guru

[GOO]

I have not been able to find this answer anywhere. Can office 365 back up all of my word docs automatically, thus eliminating the need to back up my word docs via a third party?  Also can I set it to share all word docs with other users or will the other user only be able to share docs that I specify as shared docs?  I want two other employees to have access to all the word docs on my computer and vice versa without having to remember to share each doc as I create it. Thanks for any help.

[Skatastrophy]

Office 365 offers you versioning functionality.  That means that every change to a document that's saved creates a new version of the document that can be restored at any time in the future. (Version 1, Version 2, Version 3, Version 4, etc. all saved for posterity)

Also, you can restore documents that are accidentally deleted.  Though from what I've ready they usually restore at the "site" level as opposed to restoring individual documents.  This would only be in the case that you deleted your doc(s) accidentally.

As far as I know, the sharing in Office 365 is similar to Sharepoint if you've ever used that.  You do have to choose to share your documents or not, but that's good so that any personal documents don't automagically get shared.  That being said, you don't have to share individual documents.  You can share entire folders, which should take a lot of the manual effort out of what it sounds like you're trying to do.

Best of luck! 

[GOO]

Thanks. Appreciate the response.  Answered my question perfectly. Funny I spent a couple of hours on the general web, ms site etc, trying to find this info, with no luck. Come to a MU sports site and get a straight forward answer right away.
Thanks again.