Sep 19, 2018 - Or, Search for a location later in the path right from the Windows search. Settings you would like as defaults for every future Word document. You don't need to specify the template location in each Office program. Save, and then paste the address into the Default personal templates location box.
The custom templates you created using an earlier version of Office are still there, but Office doesn’t show them by default. Instead when you open an Office program, you’ll see the templates provided by Office. If you want to see your custom templates on the Personal tab when you start an Office program, here’s how to do this.
Note: On Office 365 you'll see tabs labeled Office and Personal directly under the New label.
Fix it for me
Migrate your custom templates using the easy fix tool. The easy fix tool fixes all Office programs at the same time. You don’t need to specify the template location in each Office program. However, the easy fix tool doesn’t help you to set a new location. It only migrates to the Custom Office Templates folder under My Documents. To set a new location, see the 'I'll fix it myself' section below. |
I’ll fix it myself
- In Windows 10, copy and paste the following in the Cortana Ask me anything box, and then press Enter: %appdata%MicrosoftTemplates (In earlier versions of Windows, click Start > Run, and paste that in the Open box).
- Copy the address that's displayed in the File Explorer address bar.
- In your Office program, click File > Options > Save, and then paste the address into the Default personal templates location box.
Make sure you do this for each Office program. After you’ve updated your template location, any new templates will be saved to this default location.
How to open user template location in word?
User template is designed to format a specific type of document and allow you start writing immediately. Therefore you can save much time and effort by using user template to create similar document. It is unfortunate the Microsoft does not make it easy to modify the template. The first step in modifying template is to open the template location to load one. This tutorial will show you two methods to open the user template location.
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Open user template location manually
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There is no easy way to open template location. Normally, we open user template location manually.
Step 1: In Word 2010 and 2013, click File > Options > Advanced;
In Word 2007, click Office Button > Word Options > Advanced.
Step 2: Click File Locations to bring up the File Locations dialog. In the File Types list, choose User Templates. If the path for the templates is short enough, you may be able to see it in the dialog box right now. If so, you can skip steps 3 .
Step 3: Click the Modify button (even though you won't be modifying anything.). Word displays the Modify Location dialog. The Look In drop-down list, at the top of the dialog box, contains the current path name used for templates. Select the path and copy it.
Step 4: Click File > Open, then paste the user template file location in the address bar of Open dialog box and press Enter button to open the location. In the file type dropdown list, select All Files.
Open user template location with Kutools for Word
Actually there is a very easy and convenient way to open the user template location.You don't need to apply the tedious operation as above showing. After you have installed Kutools for Word, you can open user template location with just one click.
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1. Please click Kutools > More > Open User Templates Locations. See screenshot:
2. Then the user templates location will be opened.
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