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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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I am uninstalling OneDrive and changing Word/Excel settings to always put everything in local documents folder.
I know this is an old thread, but this nag has finally worn me down to the point where I needed to look for a fix... which brought me here. So, I tried some of things listed here, but also tried one of my own that was NOT listed. Whatever I did, it appears to be working for now, but time will tell.
-- while in here, I also made sure "Save to Computer by default" was checked. Maybe it will stop trying to look for the cloud as the first choice which annoyed me. I can't figure out why I hadn't changed that before now.
-- there was another fix suggested in reference to "Microsoft Experience" found in the About | Account Settings. Unchecked all of those. Don't need any suggestions from MS.
My fix: stop OneDrive from automatically starting up in the first place. You can't right-click it in the task area and Exit. You have to stop the auto-start. Task Manager | Startup tab | find OneDrive, right-click, disable. After all the fixes, I restarted the computer. Maybe if it's not running in the background, MS products will stop trying to use it. Maybe.
I use OD occasionally so I didn't want to completely uninstall. But I don't need it running full time. If I need it, I'll run OD, do what I need to do, then restart the computer to kill it off again.
Something in all of the "fixes" I did seem to be having an effect. I've opened multiple Excel and Word files and haven't been prompted yet. Normally, it prompts right away. But like I said, time will tell.
Just curious -- since you use OD only occasionally, why not uninstall the OD app and use your web browser to access the online OD folder when you need to? One less thing to think about, and one that might re-enable itself with some rando Win11 update.
why not uninstall the OD app and use your web browser to access the online OD folder when you need to?
It's much less convenient. Instead of having direct File Explorer access to files, you have to download or upload and the process is cumbersome and slow. Also the web interface is super annoying.
Very old message, I know, but I'm curious what misspelling you see. Everything is spelled correctly in the nag banner that appears in my installation of Word.