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SAVE TO COMPUTER BY DEFAULT

Microsoft is incredibly keen for you to save directly to OneDrive in later versions of Office, but it’s sluggish and slow. Open File > Options > Save and ensure ‘Save to Computer by default’ is ticked, then pick a default folder. From the February 2019 update you can do this via the new Save This File dialog that pops up when saving a new document: click the Location drop-down menu for a list of recent folders, right-click one and choose ‘Set as Default Location’.

MORE DEFAULT SAVE OPTIONS

File > Options > Save is where you go to also change the default location for any personal templates you create in each separate Office application – here, however, you need to manually type (or copy and paste from File Explorer) your chosen location into the ‘Default personal templates location’ box.

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