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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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Maybe late but I found the solution at this link:
how do I stop all my excel files from being saved to the OneDrive - Microsoft Community Hub
in file, options, save: remove the tick on the first box that says save automatically on the cloud ...
I backup as Palcouk has, on a flashdrive. These are perfectly good files that work fine. I know this because I have experienced disaster recovery with them. There is no need for unreliable and unsecure cloud backup, and the prompt from Microsoft is even more annoying than the Excel "research" pane.
No, that does not solve anything! That prevents those files from being synchronised and backed up by OneDrive (unless that is what you want).
I use OneDrive for the very purpose of having the files backed up and synchronised. There is no way I would "block" that just to prevent a "nag" message.
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No, it is the same account across the board as I mentioned in my post, and as stated the OneDrive is part of the Office365/Microsoft365 package, so it is part of the same license and set-up.
As for the OneDrive sync postponing, I do so often when working with my Adobe Lightroom Classic because its files are also on OneDrive. I pause it so that it is not constantly updating to the cloud every little edit I make to photos. During this time I sometimes make use of Excel for tracking some things, but the message still pops up now and then.
So, to answer your question, pausing OneDrive and postponing the updates, dose not affect the banner message issue.