If you prefer local storage, don't worry: you can get back the traditional way of creating documents, in which they're not saved to the cloud until you choose. In Word for Windows, click File > More > ...

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default.

Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default Ever get that sinking feeling when ...

Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Word users to save documents to the cloud, with the AutoSave function that stores documents in the cloud by default. The software maker has also been using nag ...

Since a while back, there’s been a setting in Microsoft 365 that makes it possible to auto-save Word documents to the cloud. It’s a convenient feature that helps mitigate the risk of losing data in ...

Microsoft has announced that Word for Windows will now save new files to OneDrive or preferred cloud storage automatically.

When AutoSave is enabled, Word will save a document to the cloud right away. The name of that document will be based on the date. You can then change that file name or the location where the file is ...