Stop Office BACKUP THIS DOCUMENT prompt

Not sure if this is still an issue, but the process in this link worked for me (so far, anyway!):

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-on-or-off-security-alerts-and-policy-tips-in-the-message-bar-for-office-1210b08f-bf9a-4b91-875c-f3f5246a5360

It is still an issue and that will NOT fix it. That non-solution has been tried (and failed) by several in this thread, if you bother to page back and read.

The OneDrive Nag Banner discussed in this thread is NOT implemented as a “Policy Tip” so disabling Policy Tips has no effect — the nag will still continue to return a few days after it is dismissed.

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?

"Well....when I went in to check my version, I stumbled on the answer. Under Account / Account Privacy / Manage Settings, all you have to do is disable connected experiences and it will remove all connections to Microsoft server (except Outlook if you use it). Doing so removes the option to save to OneDrive!!!!"

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/get-rid-of-onedrive-save-option-in-excelword/98754d5d-1068-4b8d-ad99-0e0992e12216

May not be the solution one wants though. Quicknotes stops working, and I expect some other stuff does as well.

This does not work for me. I keep getting the prompt...

Well, until something better is found...

I have a solution that is working for me. I created a batch file that updates the "KFMLastDismissTimestamp" registry entry with the current time, then created a scheduled task to run that script each day. That fools KFM into thinking the nag banner has been dismissed within the last 24 hours, and it does not display it again.

I had first tried setting that timestamp way into the future (like 2025), but that doesn't work -- the nag screen comes back immediately. But setting it daily to the current time seems to do the trick.

The batch file content is attached below if anyone else wants to go this route.

@echo off 



setlocal 



call :GetEpochTime EPOCH_TIME 



reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\KFM /v KFMLastDismissTimestamp /t REG_DWORD /d %EPOCH_TIME% /f 



goto :EOF 



 



:GetEpochTime 



setlocal enableextensions 



for /f %%x in ('wmic path win32_utctime get /format:list ^| findstr "="') do ( 



    set %%x) 



set /a z=(14-100%Month%%%100)/12, y=10000%Year%%%10000-z 



set /a ut=y*365+y/4-y/100+y/400+(153*(100%Month%%%100+12*z-3)+2)/5+Day-719469 



set /a ut=ut*86400+100%Hour%%%100*3600+100%Minute%%%100*60+100%Second%%%100 



endlocal & set "%1=%ut%" & goto :EOF

Is the batch file approach still working? It sounds like the best option. For some reason Windows wouldn't run a BAT file but it seemed to accept CMD.

FWIW, in a separate thread I and many others have complained about Microsoft's "backup means we'll take your files out of your control" seize-and-screw strategy with OneDrive. There aren't any MS employees in the forums, just volunteers, so our only "hope" is complaining through the built-in feedback system (though everyone needs to do that anyway!). But even some MVPs have said they don't like what MS did.