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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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-29T15:57:17+00:00

    Thanks for that @Tim. I have failed to get this 'The 3 scripts solution' to work, so clearly need to go back and do it properly this time. Thanks for confirming you found this was a working solution

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-05-29T15:08:58+00:00

    @malcom, you could say the same about MS "ripping off" WordPerfect or WP 'ripping off' WordStar before it. Or Excel moving in on Lotus 1-2-3 and 1-2-3 taking over from Visicalc. In fact Excel used to have 'a trick' where (from vaugue memory) you hid all colums and all rows and clicked bottom right and it would scroll a message about killing 1-2-3! Or Exhange aggressively going after Notes, and so it goes on. Is your objection to LibreOffice being freeware?

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