Open the Office app, click on File > Open and navigate to the server location (OneDrive or SharePoint).Under Hosted Email Services, select Microsoft Office 365.Four methods for working around Office 365s AutoSave If you are continuing to experience or have not updated yet, you can use the following workaround: Office 365 means that companies always use the latest version without the need to implement major migration projects or to provide significant resources.
#HOW TO DISABLE AUTOSAVE IN OFFICE 2016 UPDATE#
To get the update immediately, open any Office 2016 app and choose File > Account > Update Options > Update Now. This issue is now fixed in Version 1708 (Build 8431.2094).
This issue impacts the Office 2016 August 2017 update, Version 1708 (Build 8431.2079) and later. Save to OneDrive or SharePoint Online if you want to use AutoSave. This file location doesn't support AutoSave. Hovering over the AutoSave toggle, the tool tip will prompt you with the following message:ĪutoSave Not Available. I'm still looking into this.ĪutoSave is disabled for OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint locationsĪfter opening a file saved in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint that is synced using a sync client, you may experience that the AutoSave is incorrectly disabled or greyed out. I have checked our build versions and though they're not the same, autosave is now disabled which is great news for us. There is however some info i found in Excel help that talks about the build versions. So you might want to check the bit version and excel version. So we had to move the files back to disk (SAN) storage where its disabled. We dont want autosave in my organisation, because when finance team work collaboratively they dont want to autosave every little thing they do. Autosave (for Excel) i think might be enabled only for 64-bit versions, and is automatically enabled for spreadsheets (xslx files only older versions of Excel arent affected) saved in OneDrive/SharePoint online.