What happened to Auto-Save in Office 2016 for docs located in OneDrive for Business?

Hi,

Autosave (for Excel) i think might be enabled only for 64-bit versions, and is automatically enabled for spreadsheets (xslx files only; older versions of Excel arent affected) saved in OneDrive/SharePoint online. We dont want autosave in my organisation, because when finance team work collaboratively they dont want to autosave every little thing they do. So we had to move the files back to disk (SAN) storage where its disabled. So you might want to check the bit version and excel version. There is however some info i found in Excel help that talks about the build versions. I have checked our build versions and though they're not the same, autosave is now disabled which is great news for us. I'm still looking into this.

AutoSave is disabled for OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint locations

Last updated: September 29, 2017

ISSUE

After opening a file saved in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint that is synced using a sync client, you may experience that the AutoSave is incorrectly disabled or greyed out. Hovering over the AutoSave toggle, the tool tip will prompt you with the following message:

AutoSave Not Available. This file location doesn't support AutoSave. Save to OneDrive or SharePoint Online if you want to use AutoSave.

This issue impacts the Office 2016 August 2017 update, Version 1708 (Build 8431.2079) and later.

STATUS: FIXED

This issue is now fixed in Version 1708 (Build 8431.2094). To get the update immediately, open any Office 2016 app and choose File > Account > Update Options > Update Now.

If you are continuing to experience or have not updated yet, you can use the following workaround:

·         Open the Office app, click on File > Open and navigate to the server location (OneDrive or SharePoint).

·         Using a web browser, open the file directly from SharePoint or OneDrive where the file is stored.