

Go to the Default personal templates location, and enter the file path where your templates are stored.Tell Word where your templates are (you do this in two places-Save and Trust Center settings)

Then you have to know how to find your templates when you click New, and I’ll show you two ways to do this. First, you have to tell Word twice to look in that location. There are a few things you can do to get them back. You used to be able to click File > New and then My Templates, but that disappeared from Word 2013 onwards.Īnd even if you’ve put your templates into the Templates location on your computer ( C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates), you still can’t find them when you click File > New. However, every organization I’ve ever worked for uses its own templates, not the Microsoft ones, so when users in those organizations want to create a new document, they need to choose from the organization’s templates. Since Word 2013 (Word for Windows), Microsoft has hidden your own templates fairly well, seemingly trying to force you into using theirs.
