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Hi Mark, I need to check out the move to feature. An area I always struggle with is save to sites feature in Word. It always shows a subset of the sites I have access too with no ability to browse all sites? As such I often end up saving to one drive and then uploading the document in teams?

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Much of the "recent" experiences across Microsoft 365 are based on use and relevance - so it's like Dario mentions - per "follow" - and more often driven by your recent actions - like visiting or interacting with a site or the site's content. This makes it more personalized and relevant, though moves away from the "show me all my sites and I'll navigate them" approach. You should see a good list of sites, and be able to click into the library or folder you wish to save or move to. Hope that helps understand the Graph nature to "Recent"

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Feb 22, 2021Liked by Mark Kashman

Thanks, Mark, I have often found that the recent list doesn't include sites that I wish to be interacting with. This may be due to my varied nature of work possibly. However, what Dario mentions below re followed sites is really helpful and I have now implemented.

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Barry, you need to "follow" the sites you want to save your doc to. Before creating the document, go to those sites and click "follow" in the top-right corner.

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Thank you will try this, I assume this is within SharePoint. If so I assume it’s not currently in Teams today? Does seem odd that you can’t browse for alternative sites here though?

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Feb 20, 2021Liked by Mark Kashman

I think "browse sites" is complicated because you might have access to hundreds of them. While you would only actively follow a dozen or so... Generally speaking when you interact with SP sites (e.g. move a document to another site) the top list is made of the sites you're following. See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/what-exactly-happen-when-users-follow-a-site/m-p/303401

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Thank you for the clarity much appreciated

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