Default Save Location
Posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
By default Word 2007 and Word 2010 save documents in the My Documents folder. If you want to save Word documents in a different location, you can change this default.
To change the default save location and file format, click the Office button.
![Clicking the Office button](http://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2010/11/01_clicking_the_office_button_thumb.png)
NOTE: In Word 2010, click the File tab.
![Clicking the File tab in Word 2010](http://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2010/11/02_clicking_file_tab_2010_thumb.png)
In Word 2010, click Options in the list on the left side of the File tab.
![Clicking Options on the File tab in Word 2010](http://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2010/11/04_clicking_options_on_file_tab_20101_thumb.png)
The Word Options dialog box displays. Click Save in the list on the left side of the dialog box.
![Clicking Save on the Word Options dialog box](http://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2010/11/04a_clicking_save_on_word_options_dialog_thumb.png)
In the Save documents section on the right side of the dialog box, click the Browse button to the right of the Default file location edit box.
![Clicking Browse to change the Default file location](http://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2010/11/05_clicking_browse_for_default_file__thumb.png)
The Modify Location dialog box displays. Navigate to the folder in which you want to save Word documents by default. Click OK.
![Modify Location dialog box](http://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2010/11/06_modify_location_dialog_thumb.png)
The path to the selected folder is automatically inserted into the Default file location edit box.
![Default file location changed](http://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2010/11/07_default_file_location_changed_thumb.png)
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