AutoSave switch greyed-out.

this is from:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-AutoSave-6d6bd723-ebfd-4e40-b5f6-ae6e8088f7a5?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

"AutoSave is enabled when working on a file that is saved to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online. If the file is saved to another location, then AutoSave is disabled. This will happen if your file is on a SharePoint On Premises site, a file server, or saved to a local path like C:.

There are other reasons AutoSave could be disabled as well. For example, if your file is in an older format like .xls, .ppt, or .doc., it will be disabled. It will also be disabled if your presentation is in slide show mode, or if your workbook contains password protection. If AutoSave is disabled, you can always hover over the AutoSave switch and a tooltip will tell you why it's off."

 Well that's not a very helpful approach when USERS for the past 25 years have been allowed to set auto-save and recovery of files to a local disk location to protect their work from unexpected system problems, like the software you own not saving the files where you want them to be saved in the format you want them saved in.

I've been a Microsoft applications user since 1985, yes, 1985.  Only with the new Office 365 versions are we seeing the protection mode of auto-save no longer a user feature but in turn being a Microsoft management feature.  How is this a good idea, what are you thinking?

Thank you sooooo much Jason!! got it sorted thanks to your info :) 

When will the idiots at MS realise that most people (especially professional users) do not want to constantly directed to the internet or cloud when performing a function.

WE don't want to backup to the cloud unless WE decide to, when it suits US.

WE don't want to to search for images online from an Office program - that's what Google is for (or iStock, or Getty, etc)

These should be last choice, buried options, not ones pushed on you every time WE try to do something.

And as the MS Cloud advertisment - what is that awful accent the narrator punished my ears with? Please use someone who speaks English next time.

I completely with this sentiment that we should not be forced to use OneDrive as our default doc location in order to use autosave (a safety feature). Greatly disappointed.

this is from:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-AutoSave-6d6bd723-ebfd-4e40-b5f6-ae6e8088f7a5?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

"AutoSave is enabled when working on a file that is saved to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online. If the file is saved to another location, then AutoSave is disabled. This will happen if your file is on a SharePoint On Premises site, a file server, or saved to a local path like C:.

There are other reasons AutoSave could be disabled as well. For example, if your file is in an older format like .xls, .ppt, or .doc., it will be disabled. It will also be disabled if your presentation is in slide show mode, or if your workbook contains password protection. If AutoSave is disabled, you can always hover over the AutoSave switch and a tooltip will tell you why it's off."

And what if you save a file to your local OneDrive folder that is synced to the cloud?

Autosave should on in that case, instead it's still greyed out.