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
    2023-11-16T08:01:55+00:00

    IfI knew where the settings is for it, I would probably be able to turned it off. but it is no where that I can guess.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T18:23:53+00:00

    Answering my own question: The "Save" settings I'm using now for Word that seem to have cured this defect are below (user name and paths redacted for privacy).

    HTH

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T19:01:51+00:00

    Answering my own question: The "Save" settings I'm using now for Word that seem to have cured this defect are below (user name and paths redacted for privacy).

    I don't think that's it.... Because those are the same settings I already have in Excel and Word. I still get the banner saying "Backup this Document" from time to time.

    It doesn't happen every time a document is opened/changed. Almost like some kind of "timed nag screen", that goes away temporarily when dismissed, but comes back again some number of hours/days later.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-17T21:57:02+00:00

    @Scott_uu: Thank you. Even though this is not the answer I'm looking for, this is the first helpful response so far.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-19T17:07:10+00:00

    Anyone else here just because it drives them crazy to constantly see a message with a misspelling in a word processing program? If they could at least fix that, it wouldn't be so bad.

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