Stop Office BACKUP THIS DOCUMENT prompt

Anonymous
2023-11-04T15:55:46+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-15T15:33:43+00:00

    What is the SETTING to stop this annoying message in the first place?

    Hint: Stopping OneDrive from launching at startup is NOT the answer.

    It keeps coming back, both for existing documents and for newly-created ones.

    And, of course, "Help" is useless.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T18:23:53+00:00

    Answering my own question: The "Save" settings I'm using now for Word that seem to have cured this defect are below (user name and paths redacted for privacy).

    HTH

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-02T22:03:29+00:00

    Well, until something better is found...

    I have a solution that is working for me. I created a batch file that updates the "KFMLastDismissTimestamp" registry entry with the current time, then created a scheduled task to run that script each day. That fools KFM into thinking the nag banner has been dismissed within the last 24 hours, and it does not display it again.

    I had first tried setting that timestamp way into the future (like 2025), but that doesn't work -- the nag screen comes back immediately. But setting it daily to the current time seems to do the trick.

    The batch file content is attached below if anyone else wants to go this route. 

    @echo off 

setlocal 

call :GetEpochTime EPOCH_TIME 

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\KFM /v KFMLastDismissTimestamp /t REG_DWORD /d %EPOCH_TIME% /f 

goto :EOF 

:GetEpochTime 

setlocal enableextensions 

for /f %%x in ('wmic path win32_utctime get /format:list ^| findstr "="') do ( 

    set %%x) 

set /a z=(14-100%Month%%%100)/12, y=10000%Year%%%10000-z 

set /a ut=y*365+y/4-y/100+y/400+(153*(100%Month%%%100+12*z-3)+2)/5+Day-719469 

set /a ut=ut*86400+100%Hour%%%100*3600+100%Minute%%%100*60+100%Second%%%100 

endlocal & set "%1=%ut%" & goto :EOF

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-09T21:20:07+00:00

    Can anyone from Microsoft help solve this issue with Microsoft products?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-07T00:22:01+00:00

    Any input on how to stop OneDrive prompts?

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