Windows 10: Get rid of OneDrive save option in Excel/Word

Unbeknownst to me until last night, OneDrive had been "syncing" all my Document and Picture files. After a couple of hours work, I finally got all my files confined to only my hard drive and uninstalled OneDrive so that it hopefully never happens again. I don't want my files anywhere but my hard drive and my backup flash drive.However, OneDrive still seems to be rearing its head. When I go to save an Excel or Word document, it pops up as an option "OneDrive - Personal". I don't want to even have that option show up as I don't want to have it saved there accidentally.How do I

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excel not auto recovering and manually saving

Hi,

The concern you have encountered with Excel not auto saving may be due to a corrupted file or a misconfigured setting.

May we ask if you have 3rd party software running when using Excel? If yes, we suggest to temporarily disable it to isolate the issue.

Any changes made on your computer prior to the issue?

Have you tried any possible troubleshooting steps? If yes, what are those steps and did you get any error messages?

You can turn-on the auto save option by the following steps:

• Open Excel
  
• Go to File then Options
  
• Under Save option, check the 'Save AutoRecovery information in every' option
  

the best way to check when auto save is disabled is to hover over the toggle and read the reason that the popup tool tip identifies. Simply follow the steps provided in this

article.

According to this
article the autosave function will be disabled when the file is in the old file format .xls.

Kindly keep us posted with the results.

Regards.

 

unable to save files in Excel and Word

Hello,

Thank you for posting your concern here in Microsoft Community and welcome to the Windows 10 Family.

From the description of the issue, I understand that you are unable to save files in Excel and Word.

I would suggest you to follow the below path in Excel and as well as for Word.

File > Options > Trust Centre > Trust Center Settings > Trusted Documents,

Check the option for Allow documents on a network to be trusted

Additionally, also refer to the below link for more information.

Link: You receive an "Access denied" error message, and the program unexpectedly quits when you try to open or save a file in an Office program

Hope the above information was helpful.

Thank You.

 

Saving files locally only?

OK, thank you for clarifying that for me, Henry. There is a way to save a Word/Excel file online to your computer.

1. Click on File on the upper left-hand corner.
2. Click on Save As.
3. Click on Download a Copy.

This option would allow you to save the file locally onto your computer. However, the word/excel file will still automatically save to your OneDrive, but you can discard it once the file is onto your computer. I hope this helps. Please let me know if this works for you.