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

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

Microsoft 365 Insiders are testing a change in Word for Windows. Instead of saving new documents to your computer, Word will now save them to OneDrive by default.

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 ...

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Microsoft 365 Insiders should soon begin seeing Microsoft Word automatically save files to the company's OneDrive cloud by default. Users can toggle the feature via Word's settings.

Microsoft Word for Windows now automatically saves new documents to the cloud, offering real-time AutoSave, secure storage, easy collaboration, and access across all devices ...

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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 > ...

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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 ...