MS office word (2011) will not save files on the hard disk. It will save on USB drives.  Help!

I have installed MS Office 2011 on our iMac and Macbook Air.  The program works as expected on the Macbook Air.  However, on the iMac, neither Word nor Excel will save files to the internal hard drive.  Both save files to a USB memory stick.  The error message I receive is:
This is not a valid file name.
Try one or more of the following:
* Chech the path to make sure it was typed correctly.
* Select a file from the list of files or folders.
I expect it is something with the file saving options, but haven't been able to sort it out.
Help please.

Found the answer with the help of Microsoft Office for Mac telephone support.....
The name of the Mac Hard drive started with "\"
Microsoft office can't cope with that.
Renamed the hard drive without the back-slash and it works fine.

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