When you work with any version of the Microsoft Office Suite, you may be interested in changing the default save location for your documents.  Before we get started, it is important to know the default save locations.  If you are using a computer with Windows XP, your files are saved in the "My Documents" folder.  If you happen to be using any computer with Windows Vista or newer (7, 8, 8.1, 10) your files will be saved in the "Documents" folder by default

While these default save locations are highly logical and convenient, you may want to change the default save location for any number of reasons. Whether you want to save new documents to an external hard drive, a network drive, or a different folder on your computer, you can simply change the default save location rather than having to navigate to the desired folder anyway.

Today I will teach you how to edit this default file save location to make your word processing life a little easier.  We will cover the process for Microsoft Office Word 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013.