I'm trying to set Word up so that when I save it saves to both my hard drive and my flash drive. When I go into the save settings and set it up to save a backup copy of my documents it just saves the backup copy to the same location that I saved the original.

Thanks for the help!

Word backup files are always saved to the same folder as the original file. If you want to save the same file to two locations, take a look at http://www.gmayor.com/SaveInTwoPlacesAddIn.htm.

Note, however, that you should never save to removable media from Word. It frequently leads to document corruption. What you can do is manually copy documents to removable media for the purpose of, say, moving them between computers.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Is it ok to save to the cloud, i.e. Skydrive, or is that like saving to a floppy disk?

Saving to the "cloud" shouldn't lead to document corruption, if that is what you are asking.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

While I agree with Stefan that you should never save directly to removeable media - I never do - it should be pointed out that if the file is tiny (say a single page of plain text), it is likely to work out well. The problem lies with the way Word uses its temp file. It always writes to a temp file. If the document is even moderately large, or has graphics, it is the I\O back and forth that causes issues. It is NOT to be trusted. Do not save directly to removeable media from Word. Always save to your HD and then copy. Windows copy functions are way way more robust.

Hello,

In case this is still relevant I may offer my own solution to address this issue which is an add-in called SOS Click whose main purpose is to enable you to save to multiple locations or places in one click. Places can be both local on your computer, on your local network like a file server, NAS and their likes as well as one or more email accounts and multiple cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. It also features three autosave modes just in case your work is extremely important and you can’t afford losing it. One of these modes allows you to set an auto send to mail mode at a fixed interval. If you set up multiple email accounts then each mailbox will receive a copy of the attachment. It supports Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007–2021 including Office 365 and works with 64 and 32 bit editions of Windows 7, 10 & 11.
You can find at sos-click.com or you may search for “sos click for microsoft office” on Google or Bing.

Hope this helps.
Liran