Unable to find Word Documents after saving

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Unable to find Word Documents after saving

I am new to Macbook use. I got my Macbook Air this weekend and am having trouble when it comes to Microsoft Word. I create a document, I save it to the location I would like it to be kept, and then I can't find it in that location. I have tried saving it to different folders, saving it to my desktop, etc. No matter where I save to, the word document is not visible in those locations. The only place I can get back to these documents is by going into Word and looking at recents. So the documents are saving, but then I can't find them in the destination they are supposed to go. They do not come up in Finder either. What am I doing wrong??

Posted on May 6, 2024 11:28 AM

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Tesserax

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May 6, 2024 12:07 PM in response to Carly_RP15

Do you have a standalone copy of Microsoft Word, or have a Microsoft 365 subscription version? Regardless, by default Word will try to save documents to the Microsoft OneDrive. You would have to reconfigure Word's save settings to save it to a local drive on your Mac.

The following image is the default save location:

Select the "On My Mac" option and a new dialog box will pop up providing you the opportunity to select a location on your local drive.

Here you can see that it defaulted to saving to my Mac's Desktop folder. You can change this to another location on your Mac.

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