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Excel and Word keep displaying a banner when I open a file "BACKUP THIS DOCUMENT - Access this file anywhere with OneDrive included in your subscription"
I have a backup system I use that I like and I don't need OneDrive to backup my files. How do I get OneDrive/Office 365/Windows to stop giving me this prompt?
I click the "X" or Schedule Backup Later to make the banner go away, but it just comes back a little while later. I've opened up the OneDrive app from the system tray and unselected everything from the OneDrive backup, but none of this helps and the prompt keeps coming back.
How do I get this to stop?
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You are correct. It did not help! It failed! I have amended my previous post accordingly.
Please keep us informed, it would be great if disabling policy tips worked!
The OneDrive banner does not "appear to be" a policy tip -- which are specifically created via group policy and always say "Policy tip:" right in the banner. But who knows, maybe Microsoft is internally using the same mechanism for the OneDrive nag message.
It is hard to know if it is really fixed before waiting 5-7 days, as just dismissing the banner silences it for several days before it re-appears again.
I wonder what would happen if we all tried to revert to Windows 7.
This is driving me crazy too. I wish I were still (just temporarily) a sysadmin who had a direct line to Microsoft support, but I'm retired now. At least I could make them listen back then.
Really, really helpful workarounds!
I run some tasks routinely throughout the day to clear temp files, cookies, etc. and this will be added to that job.
Many thanks to the authors of both CMD and PS versions.
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).
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