Can't choose save location for Office 2010 files

I installed Windows 11 Pro a few days ago on a new PC.

I'm having trouble choosing where to save newly created Word and Excel files. I can't recall any such issues on Windows 10.

I've made a little headway. Windows wanted to force me to save somewhere in C Users, which I never use.

Got that changed to D, but only to the root of D.

Got that changed to D:\Downloads, but got no further. Can't choose for instance D:\mp3. I'm now forced to D:\downloads.

The "save" choice doesn't even appear, just "open" and "cancel"

Googling recommended several options in File/options/save, but I don't see those options.

I don't see "Save to computer by default".

I don't see "Don't show the Backstage when opening or saving files"

I had some permissions issues a few days ago, but they have been solved.

You can choose SAVE AS instead of save.

I wish I could.

When I choose any folder OTHER THAN downloads, the "save" option disappears, and I'm left to choose between "open" and "cancel".

I get the same behavior whether I choose "save" or "save as". When I click on any new folder, no can save at all.

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Fishmill said:

When I choose any folder OTHER THAN downloads, the "save" option disappears, and I'm left to choose between "open" and "cancel".

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You have to click Open to go into that other folder before you can save to it.

Yes, double click the folder to which you want to save or select open, as mentioned above.

Amazing.

I've been using Windows for over 30 years and saved somewhere over 200,000 files with my very own fingers.

One of two things is true:

1: That's new behavior, at least on a newly constructed PC (2 weeks old)

or:

2: I've officially gone around the bend. Often wondered when that would happen.

Probably 2, considering I was born during the Second World War.

Maybe I've poked "open" for over 30 years and it became so ingrained that I don't even notice or recall it.

Don't bother becoming my age.

Fishmill said:

That's new behavior, at least on a newly constructed PC (2 weeks old)

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Nope, logic says you have to open a door and enter a house if you want to hang your hat.
Always been this way.

If you don’t select a folder like in your image (MP3), it wont say “Open” it will say “Save” to save in the same level as the folder MP3, but not in the MP3 folder, because you’re not in the MP3 folder, you’re on the root of D (In your image)