Windows 11 How to change default save location from OneDrive back to My Documents in Windows 11 Pro?

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When I save a Word file, Excel, etc. it defaults to my OneDrive folder and I want it to save to My Documents without having to select the location. Word/Excel are trivial examples as I have many other programs that this impacts besides Office, such as analytics applications, multimedia programs, etc.I have tried the recommendations to turn off OneDrive backup and it did not change the default OneDrive folder that files were saved to. I do not want to remove OneDrive or sign out of it. I want to use it at my discretion and enable syncing for the folders I choose. I just don't want any files sa

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