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Word will now save new documents to OneDrive by default

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I assume that this is so that MS can train on the vast corpus of word documents going forward.

Anyone who wants their documents in OneDrive already has them there so this will mean that the huge number of default Office users will now be trained on.

> “As part of our efforts to improve and develop our products, we may use your data to develop and train our AI models.”

From the MS privacy policy.

I have come to deeply loathe OneDrive. It has caused me nothing but headaches and data loss.

I feel like they've always been doing this. For a long time, until I had to just through hoops to break it, Word consistently defaulted to OneDrive saving of documents.

Glad I have deleted OneDrive. Or is Word going to try to reinstall it every time I will try to save a document?

When will there be any good news Microsoft has been a pain to use and experience since Windows 8 blue screen of death :(

Absolutely despise this part of office. It's like their misadventures into reskinning the windows control panel with each windows version.

It keeps changing, the quick access is somehow different from the explorer quick access locations, the browse button opens a dialog in a completely different location, the recent menu locations sometimes just doesn't do anything if you click on it, only uses 1/3rd of the screen on wide screens, quick access doesn't seem to be user modifiable, "Add place" doesn't let you add anything except the onedrive that is already added, the clickable buttons are sprinkled all over the place and not clearly identifiable as clickable, sometimes the header shows you paths or sometimes just the name of the current folder, Add to favorites doesn't add to quick access but rather to favorites that is somehow a submenu of recents?!?, favorite locations in excel and word are not syncd between each other, the save as dialog has slightly different buttons available depending on how you opened the dialog, some buttons do something different if you double click them vs single click. It's just raw chaos throughout.

I assume they threw their UX guy out the window and designed this in 5 committees that were prohibited from communicating with each other. It's the only explanation that makes sense

The quick access list drives me bonkers, glad someone else feels the same way. My work is an MS shop so it’s required. I somehow have two different desktops folders, one “local” and one in OneDrive, I assume some sync conflict caused that to happen but gave up trying to reconcile the versions.

No, everyone has that, it’s just a trash OS

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