set new "autosave" toggle to off by default

Anonymous
2017-09-21T20:22:19+00:00

there is a new feature that has an "autosave"  toggle per document opened. i have 1000s of excel files since the 1990s and do not want to turn off autosave for all of them. how can i disable this by default? id like to turn it off completely if possible, it's something that is not only unwanted, it's actively negatively impacting my workflow. i'm  considering trying to download an earlier version of excel that does not have the 'autosave' toggle. this is not to be confused with autorecover. 

if this is not possible, can this be escalated to the product team to add as a feature?

i cannot express how much i hate the autosave toggle and need it gone.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-08-04T02:40:12+00:00

    Have to genuinely agree that setting autosave one is a historically unacceptable move. File dates get modified automatically ruining the running historical timeframe of events.  Who at MS makes these decisions? Obviously no one in real world.  Autosave on should have only been default to on for new documents.  How about a notification to ask to keep Off instead? (with the ability to subsequently stop that notification).  Please do better.  Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-07-15T00:10:43+00:00

    I hate this AutoSave feature as do most Office 365 users if you cared to listen to us. 

    Your posts make it clear that we cannot globally turn off this feature in Excel.

    However, can we at least globally turn it off in Word?

    Please advise if there is a way to turn this annoying feature off in Word.

    Thank you.

    Don Schneider

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-04-30T13:01:49+00:00

    It is my understanding that the Autosave setting can be turned off as default by un-checking the Autosave setting in the 'Save' section of the program Options. However it has to be done for each of the Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and for every individual Office installation that you use.

    Note that you may still need to unset AutoSave for any document created on a PC that you have not configured to disable it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-04-28T16:39:30+00:00

    There needs to be a global setting to turn it off.

    Are you saying that the option I showed isn't available? Or that it's available, but it doesn't work? This one:

    OK, that's in Word, but it should be there in Excel for Office 365 as well.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-04-28T14:57:08+00:00

    Hi Jonathan,

    The AutoSave is a new feature available for Office 365 subscribers wherein changes made on the file are saved in every few seconds. Regarding your concern, we cannot turn off the AutoSave feature by default in Excel 2016. However, we can turn this off to a file and Excel 2016 will keep it every time you reopen that file. To know more about the AutoSave feature and the FAQ's about it, feel free to check this link.

    Let us know if you need further assistance.

    do you offer legacy downloads of older versions of excel that do not have this ruinous feature? this is not something that works for me and will likely cause me to cancel my subscription. can you send this to the product team so that they can offer an option to turn off autosave toggles entirely?

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