Policy

Personal templates path for Word

This policy setting specifies the location of a user's personal templates. If you enable this policy setting, users will see any templates they have saved in the specified location in the custom templates tab on the Office Start screen and in File | New and when saving a template their default folder will change to be the specified location. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will not see templates they have saved in the custom templates tab on the Office Start screen and in File | New and when saving a template their default folder will be their document save location.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Word 2016 / Miscellaneous
Policy ID ca82018d7cb5
Internal name L_PersonalTemplatesPath

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options\personaltemplates

Policy notes

This policy setting specifies the location of a user's personal templates. If you enable this policy setting, users will see any templates they have saved in the specified location in the custom templates tab on the Office Start screen and in File | New and when saving a template their default folder will change to be the specified location. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will not see templates they have saved in the custom templates tab on the Office Start screen and in File | New and when saving a template their default folder will be their document save location.

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