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
    2023-11-17T21:57:02+00:00

    @Scott_uu: Thank you. Even though this is not the answer I'm looking for, this is the first helpful response so far.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-14T14:52:46+00:00

    Not sure if this is still an issue, but the process in this link worked for me (so far, anyway!):

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-on-or-off-security-alerts-and-policy-tips-in-the-message-bar-for-office-1210b08f-bf9a-4b91-875c-f3f5246a5360

    It is still an issue and that will NOT fix it. That non-solution has been tried (and failed) by several in this thread, if you bother to page back and read.

    The OneDrive Nag Banner discussed in this thread is NOT implemented as a “Policy Tip” so disabling Policy Tips has no effect — the nag will still continue to return a few days after it is dismissed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-24T23:59:48+00:00

    I added the policy setting mentioned above on Nov-20. It is now Nov-24, and I have not seen the banner again in Excel or Word. I had been seeing it every couple of days so I am cautiously optimistic that the policy setting works. Probably have to wait a full week to be sure.

    Anyone else try this, with success of failure?

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

    Sorry to report, this doesn't correct the problem.

    I added that key & value to the registry, and even rebooted.

    The nag is still everpresent.

    BTW, why the "" around the key? Just to be thorough, I've tried it both with and without the quote marks, with the same disappointing results.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-24T21:22:05+00:00

    I added the policy setting mentioned above on Nov-20. It is now Nov-24, and I have not seen the banner again in Excel or Word. I had been seeing it every couple of days so I am cautiously optimistic that the policy setting works. Probably have to wait a full week to be sure.

    Anyone else try this, with success of failure?

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

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-21T13:23:05+00:00

    Just dump Office altogether. Use any alternative, free or commercial, that does not want you to pay to have your (meta)data used by thirdparties.

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