set new "autosave" toggle to off by default

I agree, turning this off as default needs to be a priority. It is the most irritating feature of Excel 2016. To be clear, I dont mind it for Word but with excel if I create a model, I dont want it to save every time new inputs are entered. I want to play around with an excel file, change nubmers to see what happens, without saving it. 

Oddly enough, when I create new files in Word, there is no autosave option. But in Excel, there is. And I hate it. In fact, I turn it off for every Excel file I have but wish it was available for Word.

Microsoft, please review this. It is not a wanted feature.

Everyone go to the microsoft User Voice page (link below) and vote on this as a top problem! Even better, call everyone you know and have them vote too.

https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/32646925-office-files-onedrive-sync-issues-since-latest-upd

According to the developer I spoke with, the User Voice page is monitored closer by developers while pages like this are monitored by low level customer service agents - hence why 90% of the answers in these threads are canned Copy+Paste responses. He said that this is one of the best ways to get it on the dev team radar.

That worked!   So relieved.  Have used MS office since before Windows (MS-DOS) and have a 30 year old habit of saving documents with specific name extensions (-1, -2, a, b, etc.) to easily go back to previous versions. I work on an international standards committee in a regulated industry and it's imperative to have saved various versions as one works toward a final. This autosave feature was driving me crazy.

This is worst feature MS could have possibly ever thought of. Ever since this came out Excel crashed 80% of the time I use it. Worst, I often open old excel files to reference them but don't want them save and the date changed. I simply to look up some info and then close the file, leaving the date when it was last actually edited.

The fix for this is simple MS. Just make an option that allows users to default the feature off instead of on. Then if a user wants to turn it on for a specific file they can. How is the not logical to every single person working at Microsoft?

Imagine this: I need to do a little what-if'ing with some data I have in Excel. I open an existing Excel file, slice and dice, sort a bit, remove some rows, delete a column or two, and finally get the summary data I need. Great! Excel, you are fantastic!

Then imagine the horror I feel when I realize all these 'changes' were saved. WITHOUT MY CONSENT OR INTENT!!!

I love you, Microsoft. I was in college writing Pascal programs when you started. I did the mainframe thing as a career, but really loved the smaller platform. I deferred the call from Apple and stayed true to Big Blue (IBM) and Little Blue (MS).

But, IBM was professional in everything they did. Everything. All the way down to user experience and documentation. MS, you fail in these areas.

I know I can turn AutoSave off. For each document. What I (and apparently a boatload of other people) really need is a default setting. Ya can't fool me and tell me it is too involved.

I, along with everyone else who posted here, will raise a pint in honor of a decision well made right after you give us this simple functionality.

Thanks,

Brad