Stop Office BACKUP THIS DOCUMENT prompt

What does it take to get help from Microsoft, on Microsoft products, in a Microsoft forum?

It's been two weeks now without any useful help.

You must be new here, lol. There is never a response from any Microsoft employee. Generally, someone comes along touting their great knowledge and MVP certification credentials to say something really super technical and helpful like "have you tried turning it off and back on again?" or to recommend "sfc /scannow" followed by resetting or reloading windows. Doesn't matter what the problem is, the answers are always the same cut+paste non-answers.

The only time there is real help here -- is when someone with the problem finds a solution elsewhere and shares it here with the rest of us experiencing the same problem.

The "Backup this Document" prompt is not only annoying, but also horribly (and I assume deliberately) misleading. Onedrive isn't a "backup", it's a mirror, meaning if a file gets deleted, corrupted, destroyed or malware-encrypted -- the "backup" on Onedrive is also trashed. Second, clicking it doesn't "backup this document"; rather it moves all your user folders to Onedrive, syncs them all to the cloud, which may then be followed by an email telling you "Your Onedrive Storage is full, please subscribe $$$$$ for more!".

There should be (and may be) a GPO to turn it off, but I have yet to find any documentation leading to that.

As I noted in the OP, I have a backup system that I use and like. All my documents I store on my local drive and I don't use OneDrive to store my documents unless I specifically want to.

But OneDrive keeps prompting me to backup my documents on OneDrive, even those ones that I've specifically saved to my local drive.

This looks an awful lot to me like Microsoft is just pushing for users to use OneDrive - but I don't want to use OneDrive (except for those few documents I do need OneDrive for).

So without uninstalling OneDrive all together, how do I get Office/Windows/OneDrive to stop prompting me to backup my documents.

I have the same issue/question. it is really annoying to push their products like that. I have Microsoft 365 subsription but I want to choose on my own terms what file when to save on cloud and how frequent. we all know this is a push to get users hooked on their services otherwise I don't see a very good reason for this much push to do something that I don't want to do.

What does it take to get help from Microsoft, on Microsoft products, in a Microsoft forum?

It's been two weeks now without any useful help.

This is a problem with Microsoft and only Microsoft products. It's been ten days without an informative response. Is there anyone from Microsoft here who can help solve this problem with Microsoft products?