How to Make "Autosave Off" the Default on Office Applications

Modified on Wed, Feb 12 at 9:26 AM

You can turn off "autosave" as a default for each of the Microsoft Apps: Word, Excel, & PowerPoint.

To do so, start with all files closed, and open each app (Word, then Excel, the PowerPoint… and do the following in each):

1. Go to File > Options (if you didn’t open a file, just go to “Options” in the lower left corner of the screen)

2. In the Save tab, uncheck the box next to AutoSave OneDrive and SharePoint Online files by default.

3. Click OK to save the changes.

4. Quit the app (this would require closing any/all open documents) and restart.

5. Repeat above steps for Excel & Powerpoint.

This will default your Office applications to start without Autosave On.