Get Office 2013 to open files local instead of on SkyDrive

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I've synced my SkyDrive-Account to a local Folder. For Office 2010 everything is as it should be.

But Office 2013 annoys me: When I open a file in my local Folder (which is synced to SkyDrive) it will try and download the file again, even though it already sits on my hard drive.

Even more annoying is saving the file (or save as): I just want to save the file to my local folder (and let the SkyDrive sync handle the upload), but Office 2013 insists to upload the file itself, which takes Ages and using save as the choices are some online folders when I just want the Standard save as Dialog.

So how do I revert Office 2013 behaviour for local files to the old, even when the local files are being synced to SkyDrive?

Best Answer

This blog post from Microsoft explains why Office 2013 and Skydrive work this way

http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/07/30/office-and-skydrive-for-windows.aspx

This is a summary

http://www.liveside.net/2012/07/31/microsoft-explains-how-skydrive-and-office-2013-works-best-with-each-other/

Although in theory it sounds good I don't like this behaviour either and so I've disabled this option in the skydrive settings and in the office settings.

  1. The skydrive settings are accessed via the status icon
  2. The Office settings are accessed via the FILE > OPTIONS > SAVE dialog as described in the article linked in the comments above

Both changes seem to be required to get back to the way it worked in Office 2010, ie always a transparent background process (but probably less bandwidth efficient)

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