Yes, you can do a SAVE-AS and direct it to the USB thumb drive
BUT
In prior years, people who do that end up with corrupted/unusable files on the thumb drive. AND even if it works a couple times, your file might be destroyed somehow another time. So I don't recommend it.
I had read one post a few years ago, where a knowledgeable person indicated that USB-connected drives sometimes get remapped during shutdown/restarts, and the software will lose track of where that file is.........trouble trouble.
I just prepare my own on my computer and back-up by copy-paste to a PWD-protected thumb drive every couple weeks. Then delete from my computer in June after taking another copy to put in bank's safe-deposit box.
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