Disable AutoSave for Word and Excel

Modified on Tue, 6 May at 7:13 PM

This is set on a per user level on each computer.

# Disable AutoSave for Word
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word" -Name "DontAutoSave" -Value 1

# Disable AutoSave for Excel
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel" -Name "DontAutoSave" -Value 1

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