If you are one of those types that doesn’t save all of your documents in the My Documents folder, you may want to change the first place Office looks when you click on open or save. Many people like to save their documents on a network drive for example for backup or sharing purposes. I will show you how to change these settings for Microsoft Word and Excel.
For Word you want to go to Tools and then Options. Next you will click on the File Locations tab and then the modify button as shown in the image below.
When you click on Modify you will get a browse window. Select the location you want Word to start with and click OK.
For Excel you go to Tools, Options and then the General tab. It looks a little different but works the same way except you have to manually type in the location instead of browsing to it.
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