Default save location reverts to Skydrive Documents rather than documents on PC folder

I have Office 2013 running on a Windows 8.1 system. I wish my default save location to be C:\Users\Mike\Documents and I have used the 'Options' settings to ensure that the Backstage is not shown and also the ensure that additional places for saving are not shown. I have ticked the option to say save to computer by default is selected and I have entered the path above into the default local file location. (see screenshot)

However, when I am working on a document and click save, the dialogue box takes me to this location C:\Users\Mike\SkyDrive\Documents

I have tried changing the location to other places e.g. desktop and it works as it should. So it would appear that it is just a problem that affects the way that Office recognises the 'documents' part of the path.

Is this a particular problem to me? Is there any solution?

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Jimjay1

I started PC Settings, clicked on SkyDrive, then turned off the "Save documents to SkyDrive by default" option.

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MikeToyn

I've managed to disable skydrive which has sorted it. I used these instructions: http://www.howtogeek.com/167058/how-to-disable-skydrive-integration-in-windows-8.1/

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