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General Office tips

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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