How I corrected the problem with Excel not saving my files on my laptop

Although I pay for MS Office, I don’t really use it a lot, preferring to use Google because it has the Google Colab application that I like to use to program in Python.

I have decided that since I am paying for MS Office then I may as well learn to use it and initiate projects in that software package.

When I began using MS Excel, however, I was not able to save the file I opened onto Google Cloud. The Excel package stored on my laptop was set up to save files to OneDrive. To be honest, I cannot recall the last time that I actually used my OneDrive account, but it is linked to my laptop. Therefore when updates are made to my laptop and MS Office, it will automatically affect my OneDrive account.

Somehow, my Documents folder was moved into the Email attachments folder, and that is where the trouble began.

The very bottom entry on the screenshot below shows a file, Email, that was saved into the Email attachments folder:-

Because I was not sure what to do to correct the problem, I moved the Documents folder into the Personal folder, and that seemed to…