Autosave disabled for file on OneDrive (SkyDrive)

[Tom21g]

hello,

I have a standard, multi sheet excel workbook.
It's stored at this address: C:\Users\tom\SkyDrive\Personal\docs

When I open my workbook, the Autosave icon is grayed out and disabled.

The way I get to this workbook is via a shortcut on my desktop. I created
this shortcut originally in the OneDrive folder and moved it to the desktop.

Is that why Autosave thinks the file is not saved to OneDrive? Because the shortcut that opens
the file is on my desktop (so its a local address not OneDrive)?

Is this the problem or a red herring for some other problem?

Your help is appreciated
regards
Tom

update: should have mentioned I'm running Windows 10 and excel is part of my Microsoft office subscription
2. more importantly, even if I open the workbook directly from the OneDrive/SkyDrive folder, bypassing my desktop shortcut, Autosave is disabled. What's going on? Do I need an add-in to make Autosave work?

[Tom21g]

I believe this problem was a timing issue.

I'd typically bring up the Surface, and almost immediately bring up a spreadsheet. I think One Drive was still logging in/communicating when I opened the spreadsheet so Autosave was disabled. I've been waiting to see the One Drive "cloud" icon on the taskbar appear, and waiting for a mouse-over to show "Up to date" before opening the spreadsheet. If I do that, Autosave is enabled.

Since I wrote the original post, I've seen only one Windows update in history, a Security update on Oct 11, so unless that also affected Excel, I'll go with the timing issue.

Regards
Tom