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Saving office documents onto a wireless flash drive

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I recently purchased office 365 personal so that I could edit office documents on my iPad, which I could previously not do.  I also purchased a wireless flash drive so that I could use the same documents on other machines than the iPad and PC at work.  I can open documents from the flash drive on my ipad, but I cannot seem to be able to save them back to the flash drive, only OneDrive or a sharepoint site...any way to get around that and be able to save to my wirless flash drive?

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You should never work with a Word document that is opened from removable media (which I would consider a wireless flash drive to be) and nor should you save directly to such a device.  Corruption of your document is almost certain to happen sooner or later.
Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word)
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Saving to and opening documents from flash drive from Word in particular has never been a good idea. It is a ripe source of document corruption and loss. Adding wireless connection into the mix offers even more scope for disaster. You should always SAVE locally (or to Onedrive/Sharepoint) and COPY to and from removable media.
Graham Mayor (Microsoft Word MVP 2002-2019)
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Last updated April 25, 2024 Views 698 Applies to: