Autosave

[johnjr1955]

Is there a way to turn off autosave in Windows 11?

[#2]

@johnjr1955 Use the switch in the top left-hand corner of the Excel window.

[#3]

We are trying to turn it off permanently so that the operator can turn it on when they want. At the moment it is set to automatically save when they open a previous saved worksheet and if they do not remember to turn it off when they begin, it automatically saves the overwrite.

[#4]

@johnjr1955 In File, Options, Save you can set the default to NOT Autosave workbooks. Workbooks saved with Autosave previously will remain to be "autosaved" so you'll have to switch it off for each of them. Once you have done that, your operators don't have to remember switching it off before they start using the workbook. But it will not disable the Autosave switch, so they could always (accidentally) switch it on again. And you would have to change that setting on each PC. Don't believe you can permanently disable it for all in one go. But perhaps I'm mistaken.