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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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It's a real shame when software developed by a "trusted" company like Microsoft starts to resemble spammy malware.
My experience (and feelings) are exactly the same as the OP.
I write software for a living so I (pretty much) know what I'm doing. I use Microsoft products all day every day and, in general, find them superior to other, similar, products. Having said that, things like this (which could easily be fixed) are annoying. Granted, this is a small deal but it suggests Microsoft doesn't care.
Certainly, Microsoft is top dog when it comes to business software but, it's uncanny how quickly that status can slip away. Does anyone remember Microsoft's phone/handheld offerings? Windows Mobile was indisputably the best and most capable system available. But Microsoft sat on their hands while Apple and Google took the entire market from them.
Couldn't happen with Office? Don't be so sure. Wake up Microsoft.
JCC
The 'fix' is easy.
You are reminding me of HP calculators. Once they catered to the highly skilled technical elite, and they were the best. But they are no longer in that business. The day is coming when you will have to pay a premium for an antique if you want a handheld computing platform that cannot spy on you.
I think uninstalling OD is user-by-user. I uninstalled for one of my users, and on that account, OD no longer appeared as an app. On another account on the same laptop, OD continued to appear as an app.
However, other commentators have noted that Micro$oft might reinstall OD with future Windows updates. Probably, the command/PowerShell file is the best solution.