Word Docs Now Saved to the Cloud by Defau;lt

If you use Microsoft Word as part of Microsoft 365, you need to look at this article from Office Watch. Microsoft has changed the default save location for Word docs to the cloud, either OneDrive or SharePoint. You can change it to a local directory on your computer, but it takes a bit of effort. 

This is an arrogant but inevitable step by Microsoft to ram OneDrive down the throats of their paying customers. A change made to benefit the company with little consideration of the customers’ legitimate needs.

Here’s what we know about this change (announced today) based on Microsoft’s carefully crafted description. Office Watch will report more once we can test the new Word build ourselves to see how it really works.

I'm not impressed. I don't use OneDrive any more than absolutely necessary. Windows wants to use it for screen shots, for example. I can live with that, but I want files I create in a specific location for which I have backup routines in place.