The Microsoft Office 2013 works closely with Microsoft services, and if you use a Microsoft account for Windows 8 / 8.1, then the Office 2013 it automatically connects to your account without asking you. Just the Office 365 and its capabilities are enabled cloud.
If you do not want cloud services to be included in Office 2013, you might want to know how to disable the automatic connection that it is running. In this article, we'll look at how to disable it with a simple "piss" in the registry.
1. Open the Registry Editor (press the Win + R keys and then write the new regedit in the new window)
2. Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Office \ 15.0 \ Common \ Signina
3. Create a new DWORD value with the name SignInOptions and set its value to 3. This will disable it completely feature sign-in window in Office 2013. The other possible values of SignInOptions are the following:
| Value | Result |
|---|---|
| 0 | Users can subscribe to and access Office content using the Microsoft Account or the Domain Account / Organization ID. |
| 1 | Users can log in using only the Microsoft account. |
| 2 | Users can register using Organization ID only. |
| 3 | Users can not sign in to any Cloud account. |
4. Restart Office applications.
It wasn't that hard, was it? If you are one of those who are in the mood to "tweak" things on the computer either to improve some service, or for it better safety you, or because you have nothing better to do, stay tuned to iGuRu.gr for more Tips n Tricks.
