By default, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) will save files to Microsoft OneDrive. This is fine if you use OneDrive, but many of us don’t. We use Google Drive at my day job, you may use Dropbox or iCloud. Lets change Microsoft Office default save location so we can save our documents to somewhere that is not OneDrive.
Why OneDrive
OneDrive is Microsoft’s version of Dropbox / Google Drive. As you require a Microsoft account for Windows to work you will automatically have a OneDrive account. Microsoft Office will save to OneDrive by default, this is fine as you will get a unofficial backup.
There are many online cloud solutions, or you may just want to save Microsoft Office documents to your local computer (remember to keep a backup). Whatever your method, we have a recipe for you.
By changing this setting in one Microsoft Office application, we will affect all Microsoft Office applications.
Change Microsoft Office default save location (Instead of OneDrive)
Equipment
- Microsoft Office
Ingredients
- Storage (Cloud or Desktop / Laptop)
- Storage (Cloud or Desktop / Laptop)
Instructions
- Open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint then press File > Options.
- In the right-hand menu, press Save.
- Select the checkbox next to Save to Computer by default.
- Press Browse and navigate to the folder you want to save your files to, then press OK. This can be a local folder, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.
- We now want to change AutoRecover to help circumvent the lack of Auto Save. Next to Save AutoRecover information every: change this number to anything from 5 to 1.
- Restart Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and start saving to your preferred location.
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