Issues finding saved documents

I have MS office installed on my macbook for school and when I look for saved documents (word and excel), I can't find them. I then tried a search with the document name and can't find it either. The only way I can open it is if I right-click on word or excel in my dock and find it in recent documents. Anyone know why it is doing this and how to fix it?
Thanks!

Open Word or Excel and create a "test" document. When you go to save it, check the file path. Is it saving it to a weird location? If so, you can set it back to your Documents folder or wherever you want.
If for some reason Spotlight is not finding it when you search, you can re-index your hard drive (this may take a little time to complete depending on how much stuff you have). To do so:
1. Open System Preferences
2. Click the Spotlight preference pane
3. Click the Privacy tab
4. Drag your entire hard drive (Macintosh HD or whatever you called it) into the box that says "Prevent spotlight from searching these locations"
5. Click Show All and let it sit for 30 seconds to a minute.
6. Go back into Spotlight preference, select your hard drive in the Privacy box, and click the "-" sign to remove it from the list.
7. After about 30 seconds or so, if you click on the Spotlight icon at the top-right corner of your screen, you should see a message that it is indexing (with a progress bar).

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