Stop Office BACKUP THIS DOCUMENT prompt

There are two scripts in this thread which will solve the problem (a Batch file posted by me on 12/2/2023 and a Powershell equivalent posted by Denver Root on 12/5/2023). Both do the same thing, which is reset the "nag countdown date" to fool Office into believing the "nag" has been displayed and acknowledged today, so that it will not be displayed again.

The scripts need to be run daily via Task Scheduler. You need to copy/paste the script of your choice into a plain text file, with either a .bat or .ps1 suffix as appropriate for the script type you choose. Then create a Task Scheduler entry to automatically run the script daily. This will eliminate the Office "backup this document" banners from appearing.

The only other method that consistently works is to uninstall OneDrive. If you want access to OneDrive but do not want the periodic "backup this document" prompts, one of the scripts mentioned (with a Task Scheduler entry to run it daily) will eliminate the prompts.

This is what I eventually had to do as well to stop it. Turning off the backup flag in the Control panel did stop the backup requests, as advertised, but only for about a week. Then the flag mysteriously started turning itself back on and I was back to getting the backup notices in my Office applications.

It's ironic that Microsoft's intention of forcing people to eventually have to use OneDrive, which we all know will eventually be a forced monetary charge on us, is actually resulting in us disabling OneDrive as the only way to get around the pain in the butt practices Microsoft is building into it.

I've been in product development for 43 years. I'd hate to be in an environment where my manager is telling me to do something to the code I'm developing which will be so obviously annoying and unjustified to the users.

Keep reading beyond that message post. That message was a "possible" solution being investigated, but was later confirmed NOT to eliminate the Nag banner.

There are later messages in the thread containing Shell and PowerShell scripts that DO work, in conjunction with a scheduled daily task. They reset the "timer" that Onedrive uses to display the Nag message, making Onedrive think the message has already been recently displayed -- tricking it into not displaying it again.

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.