Stop Excel 365 saving files to OneDrive by default
Published on 8th June 2024 Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteRecently, I was doing some work in Excel (while I use the 365 version, this may work with others too) when I found it offering to save a file to OneDrive by default. My preference is to keep everything local, especially given the limitations of online storage. Thus, I sought a way to do just this.
That meant going to File > Options and then to the Save tab. In there, I found the option called Save to Computer by default and activated that. The default local location can be changed too, but I left this as it was because I tend to use multiple file locations anyway. Clicking on the OK button after making the change that I wanted was enough to set the behaviour as I required, and I no longer see the prompt for online storage since then.