How to Remove the OneDrive Save Option from Microsoft Office Apps

If you find yourself accidentally saving your Word documents or Excel spreadsheets etc. to your OneDrive account, then you might want to consider removing the OneDrive option as a save or save as location. Changing the Connected Experiences setting in your Office account settings will remove the OneDrive option from your save locations for all of your Microsoft Office programs. You can also change the setting in the Save options to save to computer by default if you do not want to remove OneDrive yet hopefully not save to OneDrive unintentionally.

Just be sure to review the other settings that will be disabled once you uncheck the box that says Turn on experiences that download online content to make sure it doesn't turn off something you might need.

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[doublej]

Great explanation! This aspect of Windows trying to dictate where I store files by stealth has driven me nuts for years. Thank you!

[tedmacdonald]

Thanks! Just what I was looking for. Extremely annoying that Microsoft tries so hard to corral everyone into OneDrive, particularly when you're trying to set up Google Workspace/Google Drive users and trying to ensure all their data is captured properly in the Google environment.

[RichardVarga-vz]

amazing video, sectioned straight to the point, fixed my issue with auto saving to one drive in seconds! thanks!1

[gfdnyhx]

Thank you so much! I am so tired of seeing these "upgrades" that are supposed to make life "easier". I miss the window XP days. The features were just what I needed

[toney]

Sir, you have "Made My Day" and Year. I had removed OneDrive through "Add Remove Programs" but was still sutck with OneDrive icons and releated stuff that simply would not go away. Thank you much for sharing this hack.

[WillowMoon]

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks for making a quick and clear instruction guide!!

[frostaviationflightschool]

Thank you. I was missing files and didn't realize that one drive was hiding all of my documents. Very good video.

[erinrenee]

This is an incredibly huge help! Thank you for this tidbit of information.

[anmclark]

Thank you for this video. It worked. I cannot tell you how annoying it is for OneDrive to be the primary save location for docs vs my PC.

[AlmaMaterSite]

Thank you brother! Thanks to you, I was able to delete, there is not a single guide on the Internet, you are my savior <3

[Jason-Woolf]

Perfect!-Just what I needed - well explained - Thank you

[ValmisFilm]

Thank you very much! Hated this for a long time... was looking for a solution and found this video. It works!

[StampMyArt]

Thank you. I found that setting and was not sure if I should touch it; this was super helpful. Can't stand Onedrive, LOL! Thanks!!!

[steveh]

Thank you! This video solves at least one portion of my "How to stop OneDrive from taking over my life" quest. If anyone has a conspiracy-minded tendency, OneDrive is for them!

[bestvicious]

Nice video, thx for adding the chapters, found this menace really quick and deleted onedrive save option!

[suepeters-mycbusinessmanag]

Under Manage Settings, I don't have "All Connected Experiences". I only have "Optional Connected Experiences". Suggestions for this scenario?

[mperron]

Hurrah ! You made my life much less frustrating !!! Thank you.

[fcrowley]

thank you. I agree with the other comments. Microsoft should not be forcing this down our throats like this.

[gamingoutloud]

Thank you! This subtile forced "everywhere logged in" and "whoops save it in the cloud" is cancer.

[KeebHoard]

Thanks for the info! My dad was complaining about Excel wanting to save his files to OneDrive constantly. Thanks for nothing, MIcrosoft!