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Microsoft Confirms Bizarre Word Bug: PDFs Saved to Hidden Cache Folders with Random File Names

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If you recently tried saving or exporting a Microsoft Word document as a PDF—only to find it completely vanished from your intended folder—you aren’t alone. Microsoft has officially confirmed a widespread and frustrating bug in Microsoft Word. When users attempt to save a document hosted on a network share or mapped network drive as a […]
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Microsoft has responded to user requests. Word started saving documents in random places — what's going on? The Word article went crazy. It gives random names to the files and saves them where they come from the INSTALKI service.

Microsoft Word users have discovered an unusual bug that allows documents saved as PDFs to end up in a completely different location than the folder specified by the user. The problems don't end there. The program can also assign... Full version of the page: https://ithardware.pl/aktualnosci/word_pdf_losowa_nazwa_folder-54486.html

Microsoft has confirmed a bug in Word: some documents saved as PDFs do not go to the selected folder, but to the hidden Windows cache and may be given a random name.

Microsoft confirms a Word bug that prevents you from saving PDFs on SharePoint, suggesting how to get around the problem while waiting for the patch.

Microsoft has just confirmed a very problematic bug encountered by Microsoft 365 users. By saving a Word document in PDF, it adopts a random name and lands in the wrong folder.

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Neowin broke the news in Plymouth, United States on Monday, September 28, 2026.
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