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
    2024-11-21T22:58:25+00:00

    You are mistaken. Microsoft does care!

    Microsoft wants your work in One Drive so they can fuze it with other data they have on you, such as browser mouse clicks. Then they analyze all that with AI and develop a predictive psychological profile on you for sale to advertisers, police agencies, foreign governments, and other evil entities.

    Microsoft is not your friend. Perhaps it is time let them go their merry way and switch to an alternate product. Google is no better. I mentioned ED in an e-mail, and suddenly I am getting all these sleazy ads for products whose opposite I occasionally could benefit from. Remember: you are government property, and they can observe you without limitation. Privacy? Read your privacy policy. At the bottom is fine print saying that they can modify it at their own pleasure at any time without notifying you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-13T07:25:11+00:00

    oh **** in the ****

    Yeah well MS is out to make money. "Free" backup with 365 - tie you in - then oh- you've run out of room or your subscription runs out. No problem. Pay the cash.

    Shaft me baby.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-14T16:57:34+00:00

    Thanks for the post VanKnowles. I use One-Drive a lot, so I wouldn't want to uninstall it. I'll look into the command/PowerShell solution.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-13T23:35:31+00:00

    I think uninstalling OD is user-by-user. I uninstalled for one of my users, and on that account, OD no longer appeared as an app. On another account on the same laptop, OD continued to appear as an app.

    However, other commentators have noted that Micro$oft might reinstall OD with future Windows updates. Probably, the command/PowerShell file is the best solution.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-07T05:03:42+00:00

    You are reminding me of HP calculators. Once they catered to the highly skilled technical elite, and they were the best. But they are no longer in that business. The day is coming when you will have to pay a premium for an antique if you want a handheld computing platform that cannot spy on you.

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