MS Office: Retrieve documents saved to "User Templates" Sometimes, seemingly at random, when I go to save a Word document I'm working on, the "Save As" defaults to "User Templates" instead of "Docs". Sometimes I don't notice its done that and I just hit "Save". Now I can't find those docs.

I found them once a while ago, but I don't recall how, and I need some of those docs for clients. How do I locate them?
Via CLI

I believe Microsoft Word stores these preferences in this file: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist. You could use the plutil to view the contents or a text viewer CLI tool such as cat, more or less. .plist files are merely a variant of XML files.

$ plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist


I'd look in this file for something related to "default" and "save".

Via GUI

If you prefer doing this through the GUI the official Microsoft Office docs show where you'd do this in this doc titled: Save a file in Office for Mac
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References


My mac will not let me save word documents
Can I check my “plist” files in Mac OS X for problems?