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AutoSave feature causing frustration
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...
I agree completely.
Opening an old document (for reference, perhaps, or to copy data from it) ends up having the file's last update timestamp overwritten. It's real problem...
Office should always ask whether to begin autosave on a file when it's the first time an autosave-capable version of Office has opened it. This is product management 101.
They seem to be doing the thing that makes Google software impossible to work with,,, destroying downward compatibility by just dropping old features/function, or altering behavior because the new behavior is considered (by product management) to be somehow better.