Stop Office BACKUP THIS DOCUMENT prompt

Hmmm...you might have hit on it. I gave it a try just now and will see if that stops the incessant popups. Thanks for posting this suggestion. I'll post back if the messages return.

It also breaks any program pointing to the location since they move the files to a onedrive folder.

Took me a few hours to figure out how to revert back to the original file location. Meanwhile - panic.

Oops [insert sheepish look here]. Sorry for the false alarm.

I see that *did* mess up my script so that the KFM value wasn't being updated.

Ha -- No problem, glad it is still working.

At the very least, this will likely need changes with the next major Office 365 release -- as the version number in the registry path will likely increment. And, of course, Microsoft could move to a more complex method that can't be easily circumvented at any time.

It's Baaaack!

I've been running the registry patch every day to reset the nag date.

But now, the nag is back in Word (and, I assume, every other Office app).

There must be some new code that uses a different reminder switch.

Any ideas?

Still working for me (so far), in Word and Excel. Are you sure your script is running successfully?

Check the value at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\KFM, "KFMLastDismissTimestamp"

You can convert the decimal number (the one in parenthesis) to a standard date using an online converter. Search the web for "epoch time converter", and enter that number. If the corresponding date does not reflect the last time you ran the script, then the script isn't running successfully.

Oops [insert sheepish look here]. Sorry for the false alarm.

I see that *did* mess up my script so that the KFM value wasn't being updated.

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!

I found a similar setting in Word's "Trust Center". Running the same test to see if this is better than the KFM... patch, got the same disappointing result.