Errors in MS Office Excel save function

When saving a file the save to function opens with a number of suggested locations. When one of those clicks the save box opens, however it doesn't open to the chosen location it opens to the last used location.
When the file is saved the save box reopens (in the location the file was saved to) requiring you to close it down (or save again, then getting a question as to whether you want to overwrite the file you've just saved!)
Sort it out Microsoft, I don't pay LOTS of money to get such a shoddy product and sort out the customer support function, I should get automatic error reporting options if I pay for a professional licence.
Running:
Window 8
Microsoft Office Professional 2013

Hi,
Are we talking about the "Save" or "Save As" function?
I wonder if it's caused by an add-in, you can verify by running Excel in Safe Mode to open and save the file:
Press Win + R and type “excel /safe” in the blank box, then press Enter.
If there’s no problem in Safe Mode, disable the suspicious add-ins to verify which add-ins caused this issue.
If this doesn't fix the problem, is there any error message?
You can also provide some images to OneDrive and share with me so that I can have a better understanding on the issue:
https://onedrive.live.com/
Feel free to post back.
Regards,
Melon Chen
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