[postdoc74]

I don't know what's new on this. For the last two years all Office apps I own have insisted on saving to OneDrive first. I have always had to explicitly click on the path and select another folder. Every. Single. Time.

[balder1991]

And on Mac things like TextEdit and Apple’s own office tools save them on iCloud by default.

[IAmBroom]

You can turn that off in Settings.

For now.