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
    2025-04-24T03:07:06+00:00

    Wow... 12 pages in and still seeing updates. You'd think by now this thread would get locked ... only for our benefit of course :)

    I guess it says many see this 'undocumented feature' as less than undesirable.

    Yet, apart from hacking the registry, no real solution offered. Certainly, none officially offered by MS.

    I use OneDrive for all of it;s usefulness, just not for backing up my hard drive files.

    And, obviously, I'm not alone ... so I'm left wondering why can't MS see that?

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-19T00:16:27+00:00

    What makes you think Google is less evil than Microsoft? You are only fooling yourself.

    No one's debating which company is "less evil". This discussion isn't about ethics; it's about user experience. The commenter you're replying to is simply pointing out that, for them, Google is less annoying.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-22T18:00:40+00:00

    I am uninstalling OneDrive and changing Word/Excel settings to always put everything in local documents folder.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-21T07:23:07+00:00

    Wow.. this thread has been running a year and MS doing nothing. This is 100% for their benefit, not mine or anyone else's, make you more reliant on MS, period!
    Cmon Microsoft, give us a solution to this, tired of my docs ending up in One Drive by accident as the banner perfectly placed to click by mistake. This is underhanded, deceitful way of doing things. I do not want to mess around with registry of the other 30 machines we have. Sort it out.

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