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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 wonder what would happen if we all tried to revert to Windows 7.
This is driving me crazy too. I wish I were still (just temporarily) a sysadmin who had a direct line to Microsoft support, but I'm retired now. At least I could make them listen back then.
I wonder what would happen if we all tried to revert to Windows 7.
This is driving me crazy too. I wish I were still (just temporarily) a sysadmin who had a direct line to Microsoft support, but I'm retired now. At least I could make them listen back then.
The CMD and PS solutions (workarounds to reset the date of last nag in the registry) that have been supplied by others have been working well for me. Scheduling a task to run the command once a day is an easy fix.
Give it a try -- there are more fun things to do in retirement than hoping to get the attention of the MS developers.
I’ve been struggling with this myself over the last few months, so I looked over every single option, to see if I could find anything to fix it, and I may have found it.
In the Excel options, there is a section at the very end called “Trust Center”, and there I clicked on “Trust Center Settings...”.
Under that there is a section called “Message Bar”, which I believe is the name given to the line that displays the backup warning message (and others).
After selecting that section, I noticed there is a subsection called “Policy Tips”, so I disabled the option ...“Show Policy Tip in the Message Bar. Turning this off will disable all Policy Tips unless your organization requires it."
For now, it seems to have worked, but I will have to wait longer to confirm.
EDIT: To test it, I cleared the "KFMLastDismissTimestamp" registry entry, and the annoying nag message came back.
So, the above does not help!
Please keep us informed, it would be great if disabling policy tips worked!
The OneDrive banner does not "appear to be" a policy tip -- which are specifically created via group policy and always say "Policy tip:" right in the banner. But who knows, maybe Microsoft is internally using the same mechanism for the OneDrive nag message.
It is hard to know if it is really fixed before waiting 5-7 days, as just dismissing the banner silences it for several days before it re-appears again.
You are correct. It did not help! It failed! I have amended my previous post accordingly.