I would love to store documents in the My Documents folder if applications actually had respect for me. Windows should never allow an application to just dump stuff in the Documents or Desktop folder without my permission.
Don't get me started... Office these days adds friction if you want to save documents anywhere but the Documents folder (where they get uploaded to OneDrive if you have it set up).
They've also disabled auto-save if you don't have the documents backed up by OneDrive, which is the most egregious for me.
Office has never had auto-save for local documents; it only had (and still has) periodic recovery saves. The primary reason they added auto-save for cloud documents is to facilitate multiplayer online editing.
Just create and use any other folder you like under %USERPROFILE% (usually C:\Users\username)? My Documents is a default location, but you can ignore it. Simply use your user folder as you would under Linux or whatever.
