{"id":500,"date":"2015-09-11T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T10:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kb2.host.dbj.systems\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=500"},"modified":"2015-09-11T10:45:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T10:45:30","slug":"office-2013-tip-skip-the-cloud-integration","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/dbj.systems\/kb\/portfolio\/office-2013-tip-skip-the-cloud-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 2013 Tip: Skip the Cloud Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In its drive to integrate OneDrive deeply with all of its core products, Microsoft has made the open and save operations in Office 2013 a bit ponderous. If you\u2019re already syncing your OneDrive content to the PC\u2014or if you intend to only use local folders regardless\u2014you can configure various Office applications to open and save files more efficiently. Here\u2019s how.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> This tip applies to any cloud storage service, including Dropbox or Google Drive.<\/p>\n

To understand the need, consider how Microsoft Word 2013 works by default. You open Word, type CTRL + S and are confronted by this mess.<\/p>\n

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What you see here will vary according to how Office is configured on your system, but in my case it consists of OneDrive for Business locations (Sites \u2013 Paul Thurrott and OneDrive \u2013 Paul Thurrott), consumer OneDrive locations (OneDrive \u2013 Personal) and links for Other Web Locations, Computer and Add a Place. That\u2019s a lot of stuff. But more important, it\u2019s a lot of stuff that is getting in my way of just saving the damn document and getting to work.<\/p>\n

Because I use Word all day every day, this interface represents an extra steps\u2014really steps\u2014that I don\u2019t need or want. In my case, I always want to save new documents to the same place, and then I archive them after I\u2019m done working on them. Of course, everyone works differently. So let\u2019s look at two core scenarios.<\/p>\n

The first one applies to most people, I think: you simply want to save Word documents to some default location. In the old days, this might have been the Documents folder in your user profile (C:\\Users\\your user name<\/em>\\Documents by default). These days, that location might be the Document folder in your OneDrive folder, and if you followed my instructions in OneDrive Tip: Use Documents and Other Libraries with OneDrive<\/a>, your PC is already configured to use that location by default for documents. So Word\u2019s silly interface here\u2014called Backstage for the morbidly curious\u2014is just getting in the way.<\/p>\n

The second scenario is my own workflow. When I save a new Word document\u2014as I do several times each morning as I ramp up for a day of work, I want to save them to the desktop so I can move through them in turn and then archive them wherever in OneDrive when I\u2019m done. So in my case, yes, Backstage is absolutely getting in the way: To save that file to the desktop, I have to click Computer and then Desktop under Recent Folders. Only then\u2014after three clicks\u2014does the location I want appear in a Save As dialog.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s fix that. Let\u2019s remove the cloud integration bit\u2014indeed, let\u2019s remove Backstage entirely\u2014from the file save operation. Let\u2019s just save documents to the location we prefer. Whatever that location may be.<\/p>\n

To do so, open Word and select File and then Options. In the Options window that appears, select Save. The key bits are highlighted below.<\/p>\n

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Make the following configuration changes.<\/p>\n

Select <\/strong>the option \u201cDon\u2019t show the Backstage when opening or saving files.\u201d You don\u2019t need it, and that\u2019s true even if you\u2019re using both OneDrive (consumer) and OneDrive for Business, as both locations will be available in the File Open and File Save As dialog that appear in Word (and other Office applications).<\/p>\n

Select<\/strong> the option \u201cSave to Computer by default.\u201d You\u2019re syncing OneDrive with your Documents library anyway. Your OneDrive Documents folder is available on your computer via File Explorer.<\/p>\n

Change <\/strong>the default local file location to the folder of your choice. If you\u2019re using the OneDrive Documents folder, change it to C:\\Users\\your user name<\/em>\\OneDrive\\Documents. In my case, I change it to C:\\Users\\Paul\\Desktop\\.<\/p>\n

Click OK.<\/p>\n

Now, when you save a new document or try to open a document, the Desktop will appear in a normal File Open\/Save As dialog box as God intended. And if you do need to access your OneDrive or OneDrive for Business (or Dropbox, or Google Drive, or whatever) folders, they\u2019re already synced to the PC, so they\u2019re available from the dialog too.<\/p>\n

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Note:<\/strong> You will need to make these changes from whatever document-based Office applications you use. So if you\u2019re an Excel or PowerPoint user, for example, you will need to configure each separately.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong>\u00a0If you don\u2019t want to make all these configuration changes and don\u2019t mind using a non-standard keyboard shortcut, typing F12 at any time in an Office document will display the Save As dialog as well. Personally, I find CTRL + S to be more natural.<\/p>\n

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