Word/Powerpoint on Windows 10 not sending a login code

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Word/Powerpoint on Windows 10 not sending a login code

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Unless I explicitly save my Word documents locally the authentication and onedrive is just confusing itself. I don't really want to use OneDrive, it's slow and I only have one computer. And yes I bought office for desktop more than once many years ago, I'm still on Office 2022. But when I hit save, it keeps defaulting to saving into the cloud and prompting me to login but never emails be the code.

Basically it asks for an email address, then it says it's going to send an email to me. I've run the flow about 10 times in the last day or so, I never get any emails. so It's not a server issue, it's something in my setup. My junkmail is pretty empty. This used to work fine, but a week ago it just stopped sending me emails. It's to the same account, a hotmail account, which I can login to using OWA and on the mobile app just fine. Do I just have to re-install Office completely clean and then somehow tell OneDrive to go to sleep all over again? Anyone else not getting their codes emailed to them?

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John Korchok 237K Volunteer Moderator

If you would rather save files to your computer instead of OneDrive:

Choose File>Options>Save.
Check the option of Save to Computer by default.
Set the Default local file location to your user Documents folder (not the OneDrive folder).

That should avoid the whole issue of having to receive emails.

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Anonymous

I had hoped that the file/Save wizard would learn my default location, but it does not appear to take the hint.

OK , that option makes sense now I know what to look for and it seems to do the trick. Thank you

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