How to make Word 2013 save to your Computer by Default

Description: This article will describe how to make Word 2013 save documents to your computer by default instead of automatically saving to OneDrive.

  1. Open Word (Choose Blank document) and click on the File tab, the click on Options.
    Word, File
    Options
  2. From that popup, choose Save. Then click the box next to Save to Computer by default. This should have a check mark in the box.
    Save, Save to computer by default
  3. You might want to type in a default local file location: (there should be a default location already there).
  4. Now every time you save a new document, it is set to save to your computer and all you need to do is to pick a directory to save it to. You still will have the option to save it to OneDrive if you need to.

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