A question on saving only to my hard drive, no cloud, simply

[Eric2351]

On my new computer, when I save a document to my SSA drive (vs. my HDD drive or M'soft's cloud), I'm given the option to save to my Desktop (in “This PC” under “Save As”) --which is the place (my Desktop) I'd really like it to lie until I file it. When I choose that "Desktop" save, it shows a location of C:\\Users\emend\\OneDrive\Desktop\.  This apparently saves both to my computer’s (C:) drive and to the OneDrive cloud.

I want to save only to my own hard-drive, excluding my cloud account. I know I can create Shortcuts in my (C:) to each document by saving only to my (C:) drive, creating a Shortcut, and then dragging or copying it to my Desktop as a Shortcut, but this adds two steps for saving each document only to my hard drive. Is there a shorter procedure for doing this? I want my saved Word documents to appear on my Desktop (and saved to C:) when I save them, without saving to the cloud.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You should be able to change the file location to: C:\\Users\emend\Documents.