A default folder is where your new documents go when you create one without choosing a place. With none set, they land in My Work. Your default is your own: teammates choose theirs. The liveworkspace index keeps it for your account or guest identity, so it follows you to any browser, and it files each new document by it.
Setting a default from a folder
Open a folder's menu (its ⋯ button, or right-click the folder) and choose Use as Default for…. Under New documents that open as, tick Documents. The default points at one folder, so ticking it here moves it from wherever it was; unticking it sends new documents back to My Work.
My Work has the same menu: a ticked entry there means new documents land in My Work. Choosing it when unticked clears your default folder.
You can use a team's folders too, as long as you are a member of the team. A team's own top level cannot be a default: create inside the team to put a document there.
Seeing your default
Your default folder shows a small mark after its name, in the sidebar, the Explorer's lists and cards, and the editor's Explorer panel. Hover it to read "Default folder for new documents".
When you create a document
New Document never asks where a document goes: it is filed in your default folder, or in My Work when you have none.
- Starting from inside a folder or a team keeps you there: that folder wins over your default.
- To file one document somewhere else, use Change Folder on it afterwards.
- As a guest it works the same way, and your folders and default move to your account when you sign in.
In Settings
Settings > Documents > Default Folders (Where New Documents Go) shows the folder new documents go to, or My Work. Change picks a folder; Clear sends new documents back to My Work.
If your default folder has been deleted, or belongs to a team you have left, the row says "A folder you can no longer reach, using My Work", and new documents go to My Work. Deleting a folder that is your default warns you first.
Defaults only decide where a new document starts. Moving a document later, or changing a default, never moves documents you already have.
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