Stop Office BACKUP THIS DOCUMENT prompt

Before I unsubscribe from this thread because it has (as usual) been hijacked by pro- and anti-Microsoft partisans who have nothing to contribute on the actual topic at hand... I wanted to reiterate that the solution offered by Denver Root on Page 3 does actually work (albeit it's a slight pain to implement). Good luck to you all!

Actually, Libre Office is NOT an exact copy. It lacks many of Microsoft's valuable *** features, such as commercial advertisements popping up while you are working, constant nagging to submit all of your work to Microsoft (one drive) for them to mine for behavioral models, the "research" pain that always pops up when you don't want it and cannot be killed, etc.

Did you know that there are whole operating systems other than Windows? Of course many of them are logically defective and cannot possibly work because they do not have a 3000 petabyte registry where spyware and adware can hide.

You misunderstand what Microsoft is selling. Their actual merchandise is YOU. Their software is merely bait on a hook to catch you.

Amazon and Google aren't any better. When I use them, I always start with "Hollywood Marxist nose ring amputation torture cannibal snuff ****" just to get their attention.

*** Valuable to Microsoft.

Or is there anyone at Microsoft that even cares what their customers want?

I’ve been struggling with this myself over the last few months, so I looked over every single option, to see if I could find anything to fix it, and I may have found it.

In the Excel options, there is a section at the very end called “Trust Center”, and there I clicked on “Trust Center Settings...”.

Under that there is a section called “Message Bar”, which I believe is the name given to the line that displays the backup warning message (and others).

After selecting that section, I noticed there is a subsection called “Policy Tips”, so I disabled the option ...“Show Policy Tip in the Message Bar. Turning this off will disable all Policy Tips unless your organization requires it."

For now, it seems to have worked, but I will have to wait longer to confirm.

EDIT: To test it, I cleared the "KFMLastDismissTimestamp" registry entry, and the annoying nag message came back.

So, the above does not help!

Thanks for clearing that up question about quote marks.

I'm still getting the nag, whether on newly-created Word documents or existing ones that I open to read (not revise).

Windows 10 Pro 22H2 Build 19045.3693

OneDrive Build 23.209.1008.0002 (64-bit)

Sorry it didn't help. It is still working for me; opened several Excel and a couple Word docs this morning -- still no nag for 5 days now.

Perhaps the "KFMBlockOptin" was implemented in a later version of OneDrive? Mine is a higher build number (I assume because I am on Windows11 and you are on Windows10).

Hopefully some more folks will try it out, and that might establish a pattern.