If you prefer local storage, don't worry: you can get back the traditional way of creating documents, in which they're not saved to the cloud until you choose. In Word for Windows, click File > More > ...

Since a while back, there’s been a setting in Microsoft 365 that makes it possible to auto-save Word documents to the cloud. It’s a convenient feature that helps mitigate the risk of losing data in ...

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default.