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Creating New Office Files and o365
Hello Everyone, Need help here. I just bought o365 and this is driving me insane. Whenever I open Office and let's say I click Word and create a new document, it automatically creates Document.docx...
Do you get error messages about a file called normal.dotm that started around the same time as this issue? It sounds like your default document settings (normal.dotm) was modified
- I'm not getting that error. I was using Office 2016 prior and just uninstalled prior to installing Microsoft 365. I don't understand why creating a new doc or ppt (not sure why this isn't happening with Excel) automatically creates and saves file to the root. So whenever I create a new file, what it's trying to do is open up the previous file that was created.
- Office 365 by default uses your OneDrive if you want to have it save somewhere else use the save as function as opposed to just the save button
- That's what I read too. But the problem is if I create a word document that I do not intend to save, it will then create a word document on the root folder. If I delete that file, next time I open Word and create a new file, it will give me an error that the file can no longer be found. So it is apparently looking for that file that was created and was deleted.
