Prevent Online versions of MS Office Apps from Auto Saving to OneDrive and Removing the Tabs from the Word pages? See Attached for more details

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Hi,

As the title mentioned, here are my questions below:

- Prevent Online versions of MS Office Apps from Auto Saving to OneDrive - I would need this to be disabled (See Attached).
I have One Drive syncing disabled locally on my device, so why is it still saving the files automatically to my One Drive?

- Removing the Tabs from the Word pages? See Attached for more details.
This quite annoying. And I could not find a way to remove these tabs.

 

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This is the default setting with some of the Office Apps. You have to individually turn off saving to OneDrive.

For instance on my Office365 Word app the AutoSave files is checked by default. I just unchecked it. Easy Peazy.

 

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I don't have the individual desktop Office apps anymore as I rarely need them except for the New Outlook app and that's it.

Decided to just use the Online Office apps only.

Is there a way to prevent automatic saving to One Drive?

And what about those annoying tabs from my other image? How can I remove those?

 

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AFAIK, on-line MS office apps are intrinsically linked to OneDrive and vice-versa. Use on-line, use OneDrive, MS allows no option.

(I think ....?)

 

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win11freak said:

Decided to just use the Online Office apps only.

Is there a way to prevent automatic saving to One Drive?

Click to expand...

No.

 

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And how i remove the 3 tab looking to do, Notes, from the middle of the Word page?

 

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