'Choose Location' in QAT (Title Bar?) Not Working

rjbinney

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  1. 365
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This may be a OneDrive issue, it's definitely across all my Office applications, but I first noticed it in Excel. And everyone here is quick with correct answers (whereas the MSFT folks are slow with unhelpful answers). So I'm dropping this here to see if anyone else has any similar issues and hopefully found a fix.

When I click the down arrow next to a filename in the Quick Access Toolbar (or is it the Title Bar? I have no idea what to call it and my Googling won't find it), if it's an AutoSave (One Drive) file, I should be able to:
  • Change the file name
  • Change the file location
  • See the version history

    Screenshot 2025-02-12 124447.png
I love this feature! I can move files or rename them without "Save As," find the original, delete it, delete it from recent...

Trouble is, now, when I click "Location", instead of bringing up the directory hierarchy, it's blank:

Screenshot 2025-02-12 144948.png


Obviously I used to be able to move my files to other locations. Not anymore!

The file-naming option still works fine.

I noticed this first yesterday morning with Excel files, then tested it in PowerPoint and had similar issues. Word was OK until later in the day. Now all three are behaving similiarly.

This is happening on both my home and office networks (same PC).

I have signed out of Office and back in. I have disconnected from OneDrive and reconnected. I have used both the Quick and the full/online repair tools.

My files are syncing:

Image

And I have not changed any of my "Saving" information in Options:
Screenshot 2025-02-12 145200.png


All Updates are up-to-date.
  • Win 11 Home 24H2 Build 26120.3073
  • Office Version 2501 Build 16.0.18429.20132 64-bit
 
The setting up another location to Dropbox had no effect, it is after I done another saveas to Onedrive it changed
 
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OK, so I did the same - just did a SaveAs to another folder, and then the feature was back. But of course that defeats the purpose, as now I'm stuck with duplicate files when the whole point was not to have that issue.

PLUS
When I restarted Excel, it was back to the drawing board. No location options.

OneDrive is so maddening. It's so close to being great, but its flaws are so overwhelmingly frustrating.
 
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What drives me out of my gourd is that it insists on being Cloud-first. Even though there are options to tell it to favor your own C: drive, it will always look to open, save, etc., off the Cloud version first. I spend a lot of time working offline, and it really f%#!ks everything up.
 
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