I have Excel 2016 (I think - I can no longer get a simple Help About so I'm not sure) - This is a Home Use licensed version obtained using the company membership.
I also have a free OneDrive account where I store a few Excel files The Entire OneDrive folder is synced to my local machine, so the Excel files are "Always" available - however if I connect to a network with no internet connectivity I often get a problem where Excel says "That location is no longer available" The location being "C:\Users\ross\OneDrive\Ross\Network" and I can no longer save the Excel files to the oneDrive instead I have to save to My Documents and then copy them back to OneDrive
The Excel spreadsheet can still be opened by double clicking on "C:\Users\ross\OneDrive\Ross\Network\Network.xlsm" Even when I do this Excel will still refuse to save the file back to the location
I have tried turning off "Use Office applications to sync Office files that I Open" but this does not appear to help - I did not restart after doing this so maybe it will
On my Company laptop I have had a similar issue with loss of ability to save files. That is Office 365 and OneDrive for business however I have little control over the setup of that
I think it happens if I start editting whilst connected to the internet and then swap to a connection which is active but has no internet connectivity.
However in that case re-establising internet connectivity does not fix anything
In this case Excel does sometimes crash - and recover a file but still refuses to save to the local copy.
I also think it started after we upgraded to the Office which "Automatically saves" and has no File/Save menu option however the home version still has the Save option
As I make these sorts of connections regularly can anyone suggest what I could do to stop this failure?
In particular - How can I get office to (reliably) access the locally stored copies of the files with an active network - just without a connection to Microsoft cloud storage.
