Heck, I worked for Microsoft and got to see Bill Gates farewell presentation to a packed audience of probably 50,000 workers in an auditorium. Forced updates, forced obnoxious apps that you don’t need but you can’t remove from starting services anyway (Your Phone to name one specifically) Thank you for the earlier attempt Barry but what were you saying about Microsoft is now ‘better behaved’ than in Bill Gates day? I couldn’t disagree with that more. NOW READ THIS: What’s the best way to convert Word to PDF?Īs these instructions are from 2019, I am assuming Microsoft has done away with the option to remove the OneDrive default to force your hand even further. Hopefully, it should default to your new location. Now click OK at the bottom of the screen and test whether it’s working by typing a few random words and hitting Save. Your screen should look something like this now: I’ve chosen a folder in my Dropbox, which I find far more reliable and flexible as a cloud service than OneDrive.

Hit the Browse button next to “Default local file location” and navigate to the folder that you wish to use. You now need to tell Word which folder you’d like to save documents in by default. Then, in the right-hand pane, tick the option that says “Save to Computer by default”. Click on the File menu in the top left-hand corner and then click on Options in the bottom-left corner of the window.Ĭlick Save from the sidebar on the left-hand side of the window that appears. This is how to stop recent versions of Word (we’ve tested this back to Word 2016) on the PC defaulting to OneDrive every time you hit the Save button.

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