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
    2024-01-21T18:40:48+00:00

    There are only two solutions that have been shown to be reliable.

    1. Uninstall OneDrive from your system (assuming you don't need that storage or can use other, free, alteratives.
    2. Periodically run the Registry patch that resets the time-of-last-nag (well-documented earlier in this discussion).

    MSoft seems not to be listening, despite the large number of annoyed users.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-24T20:42:43+00:00

    SOLVED!!! Open OneDrive, then "Settings" (cog wheel) You will land on "Sync and backup" go to the bottom and click "Advanced settings" scroll lower and click "Exclude" under "Excluded file extensions". Type in "docx" next to "Extension", press "Exclude", Do the same for "xlsx" if you want. The neverending prompt will leave you alone!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-24T21:47:34+00:00

    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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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-24T23:38:31+00:00

    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.

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