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What happened to Auto-Save in Office 2016 for docs located in OneDrive for Business?
It happenes i have found the fix i was after here;
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4036334/how-to-disable-autosave-in-office-365-proplus
There is a registry key required for each application;
Microsoft Word:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\DontAutoSave
Microsoft Excel:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\DontAutoSave
Microsoft PowerPoint:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\PowerPoint\DontAutoSave
The DWORD value of 1 disables AutoSave.
Working on my Win 10 networked pc, i was able to add the entry to my registry and its disabled AutoSave permanently.
I am now working with my IT dept to roll it out as part of a group policy.
Hope this helps anyone with the same issue.
Thanks for the tip. It worked fine.
I was getting quite annoyed at this. For me, closing without saving is like one big undo key. I try a bunch of things and, if I don't like the way it looks, I just close without saving, reopen, and try something else. If I like it I press save. It is like a checkpoint and I want to decide where the checkpoints are.
We probably won't set it as a Group Policy because I think it could be quite useful for some people but I will make sure it is in our IT knowledgebase because I am sure there are other people like me who will contact our help desk to complain.
Autosave had stopped on my PC and after searching high and low for an answer it occurred to me where the problem might be. Microsoft had tried several times to install update 1709 on my computer which kept failing. I got tired of the constant reminders to reboot my computer for an update that didn't work so I went into the Services.msc and disabled Windows Update. Everything was fine for a while but then Autosave stopped working. Apparently Windows Update was causing Autosave to fail because when I enabled Windows Update, Autosave started working again. Like a giant chess game!
