Policy

[Deprecated] Don’t AutoSave files in Excel

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[Deprecated] Don’t AutoSave files in Excel
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Office 2016 > AutoSave
Supported on
Windows7

Important: This policy setting will be removed in a future release and will no longer be supported. Please use the "Turn off AutoSave by default in Excel" policy setting instead. This policy setting controls whether files can be AutoSaved in the desktop version of Excel after Excel has been updated with new features. By default, Auto Saving files is Enabled. If you enable this policy setting files will not be able to be AutoSaved. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting files will be able to be AutoSaved. Note: There are separate policy settings for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Internal name
L_DontAutoSaveInformationExcel
Policy ID
f61d0fa92920
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel
Value name
dontautosave
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel
Value name
dontautosave
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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