For Microsoft Office documents, templates are given more preference. The better the background of the template, the better the appreciation you get after your presentation. Office programs like Word, PowerPoint, etc., have built-in templates. These components are also integrated with an online search so that you can find the template exactly you’re looking for from the web.
In this article, we’ll show you how to configure Office components to install custom templates.
By default, Office installs the custom templates at the same location, where the predefined templates are. The default User Templates location is:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates
In other words, this article will teach you how to set the default personal templates location for Office components.
Create Custom Templates Installation Location for Office
1. First, create a Customs Office Templates named folder in the Documents folder. However, mine was created already by Office, but Office didn’t bother to install any custom template that I had downloaded from the web; instead, it used the built-in folder to do that.
2. Press Windows Key + R combination, type put Regedt32.exe in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.
3. Navigate to the following location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Options
4. In the right pane of this location, create a new string (REG_EXPAND_SZ) named PersonalTemplates, using Right-click -> New -> Expandable String Value. Double-click the string so created for modifying its Value data:
Put the Value data as the location of the Customs Office Templates folder, which we’ve created in Step 1. Click OK.
You may close the Registry Editor now and reboot to the changes you’ve made effective.
So now, Office should start saving custom templates to the folder we’ve created in step 1.
That’s it!
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