This is something that has annoyed me for years but is hard to describe concisely enough to search online for answers! I'm using Word v.2408 under Office 365 on a PC laptop, and I've set 'Default local file location' to the Dropbox folder in which I keep all my Word files for constant backup. When I'm working in Word and want to quickly find a particular document, I'll often use Ctrl+O to get the 'Open' dialogue box, input some text in the Search box at top right, and open the located document from the resulting list by double-clicking. So far so good.
Next time I use Ctrl+O, instead of displaying the default Dropbox file location, the dialogue box displays Windows's generic Home/Documents folder, which I don't use. (This happens whether I opened the document I'd searched for, or closed the Open dialogue box without opening anything; the same happens if I Ctrl+N a new document and Ctril+S to save it). Is there any way to set Word to always default to my preferred location rather than trying to insist I want Home/Documents? Or is it this happening because I'm using keyboard shortcuts?
This irksome little gremlin annoyed me all through the last PC I had and I'd like to sort it out early on this time! Any help gratefully received.