How do I stop Teams items appearing in Quick Acess when I am SAVING (using Save As) a Word or Excel document?

I agree, this is a totally idiotic update especially when Quick access does not reference any channels/folders/Teams used regularly. Why not allow the Explorer system of pinning folders and deleting quick access links to irrelevant/historic/archival or otherwise unwanted Teams/folders? I'm glad I finally discovered this thread as I've wasted a good hour trying to find out how to fix the problem.

Hello,

I had the same issue! Super annoying. But I just found a workaround.

Apologies if this has already been shared and I did not see it.

If you customize the quick access toolbar,

then add either "Save As", "Save as Another File Type", or "Save As Other Format", when you click any of them it will open the legacy version of saving.

I have the same question.

I can see how some organizations are using the files area in Teams, so this would be convenient, but I have staff asking if they have the option to turn it off.

Plus, Could Microsoft not find some other wording other than Quick Access? That's already used in Office apps. They should have called it Teams Access.

You can use Ctrl+F12 (Ctrl+Fn+F12 on some computers) to open the legacy Open dialog, or you can add the Open command to the Quick Access Toolbar. You may need to enable the option "Don't show the Backstage when opening or saving files with keyboard shortcuts" at File | Options | Save.

Absolutely agree - if Microsoft is going to arbitrarily roll out changes at least give us the option to 'undo' things that are especially annoying to us and that we never asked for.