While Google Docs and Office Online tends to work for a number of people these days, Microsoft’s productivity suite is still very valuable, considering how the company continues to offer extras to its users – like unlimited storage.
Keeping this in mind, here are two tips to save your necessary Office files:
#1: Pin Your Files
If you need to access a couple of files quickly, Office 2013 helps you to pin Word, Excel and Powerpoint and Access files. In Excel, for example, go to a list of recently opened documents that the app displays by default. What you will find is to the far right of the document, a pin icon is displayed. When you click that pin, that spreadsheet will move to the top of the Recent list.
Apart from this, you can also pin entire folders to Excel by selecting Open other Workbooks which is located at the bottom of the list. On the next page, click Computer and you’ll see a list of folders. Now, hover over one of these folders and you will see a pin with individual files.
#2: Save to Dropbox or other cloud storage service by default
Your Office apps will usually save your documents to a given folder, be it your Documents or One Drive folder. This is because Office 365 is all about connecting Office documents to the cloud or to other devices.
However, you can also link your documents to DropBox if that is the default location you would like to save your documents to. In Word, go to Open Other Documents, Options and Save in the navigation column to the left. Now look for Default local file location at the bottom of the Save Documents section and move to your cloud storage file location folder and click OK. Close the option window and you’re done.