How Do I Disable OneDrive in Office 365?

❓ OneDrive can be useful, and it can be annoying. And it's on by default. Fortunately, it's not terribly difficult to decouple or turn off. I'll show you how.

❓ Disable OneDrive in Office
You can uninstall the Microsoft OneDrive app from Windows, via the Settings app, which will decouple your computer from your online OneDrive account. In order to stop Microsoft Office applications from using OneDrive, there are a set of options to be adjusted. Most important is the option to “Save to Computer by default”, found in Office Save settings.

Chapters
0:00 Disable OneDrive in Office 365?
0:30 Forcing OneDrive on us
1:40 Optional: Uninstall OneDrive
Article - Why Is My OneDrive Full?
3:30 Change Office settings in Word
6:20 Don't forget your old files
6:42 Other Office apps
8:22 Or learn OneDrive

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[askleonotenboom]

It can feel like it’s forced on you, but you can change that.

[huntsurveys]

Thanks for that. I absolutely completely detest OneDrive. It was forced upon me in a job and 101% screwed up my workflow. It has advantages yes, but you should never have this top-down approach forced upon you. I was forced to stop its use in the end to get a functional workflow. Good honest fair video, thank you.

[togetvj]

Yesterday I lost a whole days work due to One Drive's insistence on being the default. Usually, I manually change it to a second drive I have in my pc, but I must have overlooked it. So all day I typed and edited and regularly manually saved (CTRL + S). I prefer that to automatic, and after 8 hours of work, closed the document. Then I thought 'Oh, I haven't saved it to my external drive and to Apple's iCloud which I like and have installed on my pc (I link to iPad), so I went to open the document and you know the rest. Then I uninstalled One Drive thinking it would disconnect, and still it showed up as default One Drive - Personal. I was losing the will to live and instead of getting on with my novel this morning, I had been faffing around trying to find how to get rid of it, and then I found LEO! Thanks Leo.

I have used Microsoft Windows and Word for over thirty years but it has become an intrusive, in my face, in your face, pest.

[cryptojihadi]

You're my HERO!

Man, I hate One Drive with a passion. I had it removed from my computer but still had Word and Excel FORCING One Drive as my default, even though I had put in my local folder information for default save location.

What I was missing was checking the Save to computer as a default, but you cleared that up for me and now it's finally working like it should!

[patrickgrengs]

I despise OneDrive - the fact that Microsoft spooged this into Office products. I want all my content stored locally. No Cloud for Me. Thank you Leo -- the Options - Save page settings worked for me. New Subscriber.

[mikeperri]

Hi Leo
Thank you so much. You're lifesaver.
Like many others I am truly annoyed at the way Microsoft is pulling a swifty with OneDrive. It really has cost me a great deal of time to 'unconfuse' my system and get back my files where I want them to utilise with other systems than just Microsoft.

[sharynevans]

Thank you so much! I renewed my subscription to office, and it wanted me to back up my files to One drive. So I did it, but it made all my files a mess! I was so upset and didn’t know what to do! So I saw your video, and uninstalled one drive! It was so easy and everything is back to normal! Yay! I can sleep!

[ownracehorses]

Thanks...the OneDrive nightmare just recently started on my computer in Microsoft Office. So darn frustrating. Thank you for the guidance

[jonrubin]

Thank you--this was extremely helpful and clearly described to help even me understand why I was so confused! Now I get it! And I am exactly the kind of person you described that is confused by OneDrive (and why some files I have saved seem to show up in a folder sometimes, and then not in the same folder at other times! I uninstalled OneDrive and my life is simpler and better now! Thank you!

[twinenk]

Thank you! I came across another video. It was recommend to uninstall One Drive and Teams. At the 4.14 mark in your video. Your comments help me understand why I see see so many videos on removing OneDrive. The same reason, I prefer Android over iPhone. Why I bypass using a Microsoft account during a resent win11 installation. OneDrive and Teams I suspect does not work with a local account.

Thank you,

[kellyhess]

Thanks for this! I had already uninstalled OneDrive and yet I still had files getting saved there if I wasn't careful. They just wouldn't be synched to my computer! Changing the setting at the app level got me my life back.

[JimE]

Thanks Leo!
To be honest, OneDrive "scares" me. At 79, not tech savvy and having tried it once, I found it to be more than I wanted and controlling to me.
So the question, can I basically do the same thing with a little SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD or similar unit setting on my computer? If so, where doing I find info on how to sync it like I would with OneDrive?
As always, thanks for the useful and inspiring information. JimE
PS: Yes, I realize that have the "backup" right next to the computer does not supply the same benefits as having it off sight.

[dexterbartholemew]

Thank you so much!! I have been trying to figure this out for months. I couldn’t figure out why it kept coming back in Word. Now it’s finally gone. Yay!!

[markkeller]

I am here because the unrequested update and automatic reboot ( i suspect this was also MS Magic) caused a loss of all opens documents on my new swap to MS 365 one drive pre-select I didn't have set up or turned off-- could not find how to select auto save on my on pc- not what i was expecting! So Thank you! Reminds of a extremely zealous IT wannabe in the old days, always installing the latest gizmo or update or "functionality", when all that was needed was basic system stuff. Bloated the start up with pop up questions. Staff expected to : Get out the paper instructions: Just hit power, select word, start typing, and print. But no, Ed's help" kept staff tripping over mental blockades. Staff keep asking me to keep him away from the computer, and uninstall anything he put on it. For example, 1990's, Ed loaded a big fonts package for the "new" laser printer he gifted the church and result machine memory swap too forever to boot up. Staff wanted system as a moped, hop on hit a couple switches and drive away, not NASA MOONSHOT start sequence, and I sure don't want it "pre-selected" So, freeware was practically unusable with glitch's, and defeatured, ( what a term) like no right fill in spreadsheet, on down! Grudgingly I subscribed to 365, to have a few features and some smoothness not found in freeware.

[movalle]

Thank you so much! I was in tears trying to figure this out and even had a techie try to help me to no avail. I'm getting my periodic msg from Microsoft asking if now is a good time to update my computer. I hope they don't reset what I changed.

Now I have to figure out why my pc screen keeps scrolling on its own!

[monabiehl]

I don't want my personal stuff online. I have excel sheets of my finances. I also keep a journal. No way do I want that available for others. How can I be sure they won't charge me for it. If I install, will they still charge me? I am still on a six month trial and I know they will charge me without notice.

[frankandelisasep]

You present information very clearly and without use of jargon. I have bookmarked your account as I am sure I will need you in the future. Thanks for your help

[trickydickyjoe]

Thanks, explained perfectly and just what i needed, this one drive had my brain fried

[sashafroyland]

Thank you, Larry. Microsoft definitely overreached. Bad Microsoft - just confusing people rather than enabling innovation.

[AmareProfunde]

Thanks for your video. I got a new computer with windows 11. I was previously using windows 10. So I transfer over some files to my new computer and before I know I see a message that my One Drive is full. I'm so confused because I had no clue that my files were actually being saved there automatically. I didn't want this at all. Now I have a lot of files to go through to ensure I remove them from One drive but not my pc. I wish there was a way to select to stop syncing those files and the file can automatically be saved on my pc without having to ensure it is actually there. It's very annoying.