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AutoSave feature causing frustration
As an independent financial modeller, I work on Microsoft One Drive as it ensures that my work is automatically backed up. This worked well for me until the new Excel AutoSave feature was enabled.
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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...
Thanks! We've just turned autosave off (which is turning off some good functionality) but now Excel/'One Drive' no longer unilaterally decides to save our documents...
The method you (and we) use to load a spreadsheet and perform changes before we decide whether of not to actually save this version appears to be such a common approach in business that I can't understand why this wasn't spotted earlier..,, Thanks again! C
The method you (and we) use to load a spreadsheet and perform changes before we decide whether of not to actually save this version appears to be such a common approach in business that I can't understand why this wasn't spotted earlier..,, Thanks again! C
Yeah, I think users will need some training how this works! Your workflow might be a little different..