Since a while back, there’s been a setting in Microsoft 365 that makes it possible to auto-save Word documents to the cloud. It’s a convenient feature that helps mitigate the risk of losing data in ...

If you prefer local storage, don't worry: you can get back the traditional way of creating documents, in which they're not saved to the cloud until you choose. In Word for Windows, click File > More > ...

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default.