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
    2025-05-11T22:42:11+00:00

    Sorry that it didn't work for you. I hope you find your answer.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-11T11:04:13+00:00

    Sadly, my 'Windows Backup' option is still unchecked...

    But better than that, Alt+PrtScr to capture that screenshot triggered...

    They are just desperate to sell backup to OneDrive, I guess, hoping to replicate Apple and phones and iPad automatially backing up to iCloud with not many other options available ... unlike for PCs...

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-07T18:22:02+00:00

    Didn't work for me. Shame.
    (I did think it sounded far too simple and sensible!)

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-24T09:46:45+00:00

    The answer MAY be this setting::

    [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive]"KFMBlockOptIn"=dword:00000001

    A great bit of research on how to defeat this up-sell nag message, although it took me a while to work out that 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive' means 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...' 🤦‍♂️I can find the node 'Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft' but nothing for OneDrive, so do you need to create the OneDriveNode key (node) then add the DWORD value as you show? I presume as we are talking about '1', hex v decimal makes no difference?

    Will give it a go and see if I can 'rid myself of this turbulent nag message' 😊

    Thanks for the informative post

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-04-23T07:46:00+00:00

    After reading everything in this post and trying the Registry hack (that ended up failing), I did not feel like going through the Registry to remove every instance of OneDrive, so I thought that the best option was to uninstall OneDrive as I wasn't using it at all. This done, this most annoying prompt no longer nags me. Thus, my ancient version of Office 2016 is polluted no more and remains updated to the betterment of Outlook notification reliability.

    Thanks to all for your valuable feedback.

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