Saving in Word X to where?

[Yoyo]

I'm a Mac user. I am frustrated with Word X (yes, I know it is old) because whenever I save a document, it saves to the last place I saved anything, not where the document is. For example, I am working in my Recipe folder and save something there. Then I move to my Work folder and if I save something I'm working on in the Work folder, without doing a "save as", it saves to my Recipe folder.

I've searched setup and preferences and cannot find any way to alter this. Is this just the way this program works?

I'm on OS 10.8.6, I have MS Office X