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Make Office programs save to onedrive local first rather than cloud first
We are having an issue with Excel and onedrive/sharepoint that when we are offline on customer sites with our surface pros. A VBnet program we developed with Excel saves its progress and generated pd...
Does anyone else have any ideas which can help with this? It has been 5 years and we have had to change the app to work outside of OneDrive/SharePoint for the time being but we would like to move our file structure to be backed up by SharePoint but if we are working offline predominantly we will have this issue where cloud-first saving causes the app the fallover.
The best solution is to stop syncing. When you are done saving your Office files, re enable syncing. This is what Microsoft suggest. I dont think thats feasible but it is what it is.
