Cloud Save By Default in Microsoft 365 — Finally!
The dreaded disappearing document is finally almost truly a thing of the past for Microsoft Word users. And it’s about time! If you’re still saving your documents locally, then you know the drill: you work for hours on a document or presentation, and then suddenly you’re stuck. The words you’re typing aren’t showing up, the cursor isn’t moving right, or the window crashes out entirely. And instantly, panic ensues: how long has it been since I hit “save”? Is my entire report lost forever? Thankfully, this happens less than it used to. Microsoft has already made some decent progress in this area, and hopefully you already have some sort of autosave set up. But it still happens often enough to be the stuff of nightmares, and Microsoft’s finally doing something about it. The Status Quo Is a Mess Currently, Word users have all kinds of options on how and where to save their files. You can save them to your local hard drive, to the network, to external storage, to OneDrive, or to a third-pa...