- Browse to a sub-directory of OneDrive using Explorer
- Right click
- Create new Word document
- Double-click on Word document
- Click title bar to see where document is stored
- Get prompted to save document to OneDrive
- Press Upload
- Copy of document is created in root directory of OneDrive
- Double-click newly created document in root directory of OneDrive
- Click title bar to see where it is located
- Get prompted to save document to OneDrive
- Press Upload
- Another copy of document is created in root directory of OneDrive
- Press file, Save as
- Press Browse
- Browse to subdirectory of OneDrive
- Press save
- Click title bar to see where document is stored
- Get prompted to save document to OneDrive
- Press Share
- Get prompted to save document to OneDrive
- Press Upload
- Copy of document is created in root directory of OneDrive
This shouldn't happen. If you create a Word document within a subfolder of OneDrive, and open it in Word, it should be saving to OneDrive with autosave enabled.
Perhaps you are using an older version of Word and/or the OneDrive client?