Unwanted and unprompted saving

alpac1t

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Here's a challenging question for you. A fair bit of internet searching reveals no other questions/problems like this.

I'm running Excel/Office 365, have an up to date version. Win10, OneDrive.

A few days ago, some (not all) of my many Excel spreadsheets started SAVING THEMSELVES as soon as I type something into a cell and then leave the cell. There's a status indicator at the top with the file name that says, "Last saved at 10/5/2017 10:24 PM." As soon as I type in and then leave a cell, the indicator changes to "Saving....", and then "Saved to One Drive."

I can't figure out what's the difference between the files this is happening on, and those that it's not. I think that it reliably does NOT happen to files that are not in the folders being synced to OneDrive. But in the set of OneDrive-synced files, some file exhibit the behavior, some don't.

To repeat: I type something into a cell, move to the next cell, and the document is immediately saved with the indicators mentioned above.

I don't know of any setting in Excel that can produce this behavior--but if there is, I certainly didn't change it. My "Save AutoRecover" settings make no difference.

I ran a Microsoft "repair" of Office after this behavior began, it made no difference.

Any ideas what the hell is going on? Thanks!
 

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