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Copper Contributor

Dec 04, 2017

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AutoSave feature causing frustration

As an independent financial modeller, I work on Microsoft One Drive as it ensures that my work is automatically backed up. This worked well for me until the new Excel AutoSave feature was enabled. ...

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Salvatore Biscari
Dec 04, 2017
HI Marli van Staden.

First of all, before editing the registry be EXTREMELY careful!

If you make a mistake you can render the machine unusable.

(You should also make a backup of the registry before modifying it.)

All this said, if you want to try, you have to ADD the "DontAutoSave" key inside "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel". The key type should be DWORD and its value should be 1.

Also, as an introduction to editing the registry, you can give a look to https://www.howtogeek.com/school/using-windows-admin-tools-like-a-pro/lesson5/

Hope it helps...

MSEnthusiast1983

Copper Contributor

Jul 21, 2020

AGREED! TURN off the gosh-darn auto-save! It just ruined some files that I opened, I seriously though it was turned off in office, and in every app manually already, and yet I just opened up about 5 documents and one the save was off and a few other it was on. Incredible how stupid this feature is!

Its arrogant to think we would want a file to have CHANGES COMMITTED WITHOUT ASKING by default?

Am I crazy or is this some first year C minus university drop-out student project garbage level of thinking?

FIX THIS!!!

I swear this will end in lawsuits!