From the day my laptop was stolen way back in 2009, I have been saving all my files in Dropbox. This way if anything happened to my laptop again, I would have all the files online as well as duplicated on my laptop. Of course now we have MS OneDrive and GoogleDrive too.However since 2009 every single time I would save a file, the default folder opened by Microsoft would be either My Documents or the new simplified Documents, and I’d have to click to navigate to the Dropbox folder where I wanted it saved.

So here was the Queen of Shortcuts ignoring (her) basic rule of finding quicker ways of doing things – for 10 years. That was until five days ago when I said enough is enough and found the solution to changing where Microsoft opens when you save.

I’ll share it with you

Changing the default save location

1. Open an Office app, such as Word.
2. Create a new blank document.
3. Click on File.
4. Click on Options.
5. Click on Save.
6. In the Default local file location field, specify a new local path to store your files.
7. Click the OK button.

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