Target audience and introduction

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. According to this page, and confirmed by experiment, the path has changed for Office 2016.It is now /Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates. (This is what you see in the Finder: if you use Terminal the last two directories have '.localized' appended to their name, which Finder evidently suppresses). I was interested in the location of the Default Location for the user templates in Word 2016 for Mac. According to the help in word it states that the default location is '/Users//Library/Group Containers/Microsoft/Office/User Content/Templates'. However, if you go hunting for this location with the Finder or look up the location in Word Preferences File Locations the actual location is '/Users//Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates'. Use email templates to send messages that include information that infrequently changes from message to message. Compose and save a message as a template, and then reuse it when you want it. New information can be added before the template is sent as an email message. On the Home tab, in the New group, click New E-mail. Then go into your Templates folder and delete the old Normal.dotm file Do this by: In Finder click 'Go' at the top and then click on Computer; Double-Click on Macintosh HD; Double-click 'Library' In the upper-right search window, type 'Templates' Double-click the file named 'Templates' You will see two templates - Delete the old Normal.dotm file.

This article is for users and IT administrators. In the first part, we’ll show users how to set the default template on their PC. In the second part, we’ll show how IT admins can deploy the default template to PC users across their organisation. For Mac users, refer to the section at the end of this article.

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The default template in PowerPoint is a special file. It is the template that it used to create the blank presentation you see each time you start PowerPoint. In organisations with their own template, it saves a lot of time if that template is presented to users each time PowerPoint starts. Somewhat confusingly, the default template is called blank.potx and it resides in the user’s documents area here:

%appdata%MicrosoftTemplates

The %appdata% part is an alias (or shortcut) which resolves to a unique user location on every PC. For example:

C:UsersJohnSmithAppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates

This special location for blank.potx should not be confused with the separate location for custom (aka personal) templates which may be the same location or one of these:

C:UsersUserNameDocumentsCustom Office Templates

It may also be a completely different location since it can be set by the user in the backstage under File / Options / Save as shown below (for PowerPoint 2016)

How users can set the default template

Setting the default template requires two things:

1. The right file name : default.potx
2. The right location : %appdata%MicrosoftTemplates

To set the default template

1. Start PowerPoint
2. Open the POTX template you want to set as the default
3. Click File / Save As
4. Click the file type drop down and select PowerPoint Template (*.potx). This will automatically change the folder location to your personal templates folder. DO NOT SAVE It HERE!
5. Now click More options… (PowerPoint 2016) which will open a file dialog name and replace the file name with %appdata%MicrosoftTemplates and hit return
6. You should now see a folder that contains the file blank.potx
7. You can optionally make a backup up of that file by selecting it, pressing Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V
8. Click the blank.potx file and then click the Save button to overwrite it
9. Close PowerPoint
10. Start PowerPoint to confirm your default template has changed

IT admins deployment of the default template

There are several methods but by far the easiest is to use an xcopy command in a logon script file. This is the simplest example:

You can then add command line switches as required. For example, to suppress UI messages:

This can be extended to an enhanced script file that reports the success or failure of the xcopy process. Copy the following script to a batch file eg. setDefPOTX.bat, changing the serverFile value, and then run it in the user logon sequence:

PowerPoint:mac users

Things are slightly different on the Mac. There is no blank.potx but there is the concept of a Default Theme.thmx file. You can create a thmx file by saving your template from PowerPoint 2016(PC) or PowerPoint:mac 2011 but not PowerPoint:mac 2016. Click File / Save As and select the file format from the format drop down.

To set it as the default, save the file in the corresponding location according to your version of PowerPoint:

PowerPoint:mac 2016

/Users/username/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Themes/Default Theme.thmx

PowerPoint:mac 2011

/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Themes/Default Theme.thmx

Office 2016 Mac Template Locations

Note that in both of these cases, access to the Library folder on OSX is gained in Finder by clicking Go from the menu bar whilst holding down the alt key.

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How to get the file location of Outlook templates (.oft files)?

Let’s say you have created many Outlook templates before, and now you need to export them, how could you get it done? If you can get the file location of these Outlook templates, it will be quite easy to export. And this article is talking about tricks on getting Outlook templates’ file location.

Method 1: Get the file location of Outlook templates (.oft files)

If you can remember the folder path of templates folder, you can get the file location of Outlook templates quickly as follows:

Open the file explorer, copy and paste the folder path %AppData%MicrosoftTemplates into the Address box, and press the Enter key.

And now it opens the folder containing all kinds of office templates, including Outlook templates.

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Method 2: Get the file location of Outlook templates (.oft files)

If you can’t remember the folder path of templates folder clearly, you can get the file location of Outlook templates with below steps:

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1. In Outlook, select an email, and click File > Save As.

2. In the opening Save As dialog box, please select Outlook Template (*.oft) from the Save as type drop down list.

3. Now the template folder is opening in the Save As dialog box. Please select and copy the folder path in the Address box, and then close the Save As dialog box.

4. Open the file explorer, paste the copied folder path in the Address box, and press the Enter key.

And now it opens the template folder, and you will view all Outlook templates within it.

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