Email, Word, and OneDrive in Windows 8

How do I get rid of OneDrive / SkyDrive

• Short Answer – with difficulty. If you disable OneDrive, which is possible, Microsoft will continue to foist it upon you. Existential issues of autonomy aside, this isn’t such a bad thing.
• Instead, just don’t store anything in OneDrive, instead, store in My Computer
• You have two top-level storage locations:
  • OneDrive (aka SkyDrive)
  • My Computer aka(My PC / This PC / Computer)
• When you’re ready , experiment with storing items in OneDrive. You don’t keep your money under your bed, do you?

Save from MS Word as a PDF

1. Open a MS Word document.
2. Click FILE.
3. Click EXPORT.
4. Click the big square Create PDF/XPS button.
5. Choose a save location and name.

View PDFs without Hassel

What We Did

• Uninstall Nitro because it was annoying.
• Don’t use the Windows 8 built-in viewer, because it has a foreign Metro interface.
• Install Foxit reader, because it’s less annoying.
• Set Foxit as the default PDF viewer.

Other Topics on the TODO List

• Email.
• Increase the print size on the screen.
• Manage passwords.