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
    2023-11-04T18:05:04+00:00

    OneDrive is not a backup, it’s a cloud location of your data.

    The default installation of Office 365 and its OneDrive component uploads all the contents of the PC  \My Documents\ folders to OneDrive, (syncs) and there will be a OneDrive folder in File Explorer containing cached copy of all the OneDrive content. And in Word etc the default Save location is set to OneDrive.

    No Docs/data is stored on the local PC

    Your old backup wont work

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-05T12:14:02+00:00

    As I noted in the OP, I have a backup system that I use and like. All my documents I store on my local drive and I don't use OneDrive to store my documents unless I specifically want to.

    But OneDrive keeps prompting me to backup my documents on OneDrive, even those ones that I've specifically saved to my local drive.

    This looks an awful lot to me like Microsoft is just pushing for users to use OneDrive - but I don't want to use OneDrive (except for those few documents I do need OneDrive for).

    So without uninstalling OneDrive all together, how do I get Office/Windows/OneDrive to stop prompting me to backup my documents.

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

    Any input on how to stop OneDrive prompts?

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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
    2023-11-13T22:45:58+00:00

    This is a problem with Microsoft and only Microsoft products. It's been ten days without an informative response. Is there anyone from Microsoft here who can help solve this problem with Microsoft products?

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