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
    2025-05-11T22:42:11+00:00

    Sorry that it didn't work for you. I hope you find your answer.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-11T11:04:13+00:00

    Sadly, my 'Windows Backup' option is still unchecked...

    But better than that, Alt+PrtScr to capture that screenshot triggered...

    They are just desperate to sell backup to OneDrive, I guess, hoping to replicate Apple and phones and iPad automatially backing up to iCloud with not many other options available ... unlike for PCs...

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-11T10:47:02+00:00

    My fix-actions originally took care of this problem, and I've been nag-free for over 4 months. (My fixes are listed in the post dated 16 Dec 2024.) Then, about a week ago, the nag banner came back, so, I came back here looking for any new ideas. It turns out, no one has any news ideas.

    I went back through all of the fixes that were previously recommended, starting with Page 1 of this thread. When I got to my own post (dated 16 Dec 2024), I rechecked all of my settings, and found some of my work had been undone, probably by a MS update.

    If you had success using the fix "uncheck the Microsoft Experience option in Account", go check it now... mine was re-enabled. I've unchecked it again. All of my other fixes were still in place. The "enable MS Experience" was the only one re-enabled which points directly to an update.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-10T12:30:40+00:00

    OK, I tried again.
    Double checked that the option was unticked - it was.
    Opened one file - no message - "great", I thought!
    Tried another file - and there's the message again.
    I even tried a complete reboot, just in case - no luck, still got the blasted backup to OneDrive message.

    FYI, I'm on Win 11 Home, all updates done, version 24H2, build 26100.3775

    Update: strange thing is, the message only appears on some Word documents (all of which are on my local drive). Consistently the case. Weird.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-05-09T12:59:43+00:00

    I suggest you try it again. So far, it has worked perfectly for me.

    Perhaps there is a difference in our versions of Windows.

    I'm currently using Windows 11 Pro, Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100.

    Also Windows Update says I'm using Windows 11 version 24H2. Not sure what the relationship is between 24H2 and 26100.

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