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How To Change Office 365 Default Save Location

Last Updated on June 11, 2019 by admin 6 Comments

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I recently used the Office 365 Word application after about a year. Microsoft has made several small changes to Office 365 over the past year, and it’s better than ever in most ways.

However, when you try to save a document Office shows the following dialog where your OneDrive account is selected by default. That is, OneDrive is the default document saving location. Although the dialog offers you to choose a location on your PC (offline location), it doesn’t allow you to set an offline location as default.

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Although it’s true that many users prefer to save their documents to the OneDrive these days, not all users want to save documents to the cloud storage. If you always save your documents on your PC, you might want to set a location on your PC as the default save location in Microsoft Office 365 applications.

Luckily, Microsoft Office settings offer a provision to set a folder on your PC as the default location. It can be your Documents, Desktop, or any other folder on your PC. Here is how to do that.

Change Office 365 Word, Excel, & PowerPoint default save location

Step 1: Open the Office application where you want to change the default save location. Please note that you will need to do this for all applications if you want to set a local folder as the default location for all applications. We are using Word as an example in this guide, but you can do this for any Office application.

Step 2: Click the File menu and then click Options.

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Step 3: Switch to the Save tab. In the Save documents section, select the check box next to the Save to Computer by default option. Under that option, there is a field and a Browse button to choose a location. Select a location which you would like to set as the default save location and then click the OK button to change the default saving location in Office 365.

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Filed Under: Microsoft Office Tagged: Office 365, Windows 10

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Comments

  1. Liz says

    April 29, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    When I go to home on Word or Excel I am not given an ‘Options’ tab as described above – what do I do?

  2. Eric says

    April 19, 2020 at 2:10 am

    Any way to get it to ALWAYS default to the SAME folder as the original file that you are saving as from ?

  3. stingrr44 says

    April 7, 2020 at 5:39 am

    When I go to the Save box under Options, everything is grey and when I set Save to Computer by Default, set the location, and click OK nothing changes. It still saves to OneDrive by default.

  4. Ocha says

    March 26, 2020 at 10:45 am

    i have followed all your instructions, but my it still not change. it still saved on onedrive, what should i do?

  5. e popa says

    September 12, 2019 at 3:58 am

    thanks a lot, this was driving me mad…

  6. Dave says

    September 11, 2019 at 12:26 pm

    Thanks admin, Excellent and well needed by me. The standard dialogue box was driving me crazy! Great article, kept it simple.

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