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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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An answer such as this really feels like you must be pulling our collective leg... We know this, if we are here is of course because we want a solution to this misfeature that is making us waste so much time it can only compare to Clippy...
I have no solutions, but I'm glad that others are feeling my frustration. I have also referred to this feature as the worst thing to happen to Office since Clippy. I have lost at least 3 documents to this "feature." It's one thing to AutoSave, but to AutoSave and then CLEAR THE UNDO BUFFER???? UGH!!!! Talk about nightmare scenario. My first step upon opening or creating a new document is now turn off AutoSave. If I forget to do it, I ALWAYS end up having to redo work. Going to try the registry settings posted here, thanks for the thread!
This setting did not seem to take effect until I exited and restarted OneDrive.
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Though I have Office Personal or Home or whatever it's called, not one of the enterprise versions like ProPlus, I tried this. What it seemed to do was gray out the AutoSave switch in the title bar, but documents were still auto-saving. So I undid the Registry entries.
BTW, my version auto-saves/syncs as soon as I open documents and before I make any changes, wiping out the last modification date. Changing the sync setting in OneDrive seems to have worked only after I exited and restarted OneDrive.