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Sharing Templates xltx, dotx via MS Teams and Sharepoint
We have created a team in Ms Teams whose primary purpose is to hold MS Office document type templates mainly Excel & Word. So, there is a channel in MS Teams where we upload the various templates (xl...
Same issue here. I really would like to share a link to a template and when users use that link it opens a new document with that template and not the template itself.
The way it works when you normally open a template file on your local drive... The way templates were designed...
The way it works when you normally open a template file on your local drive... The way templates were designed...
Here's how I fixed it!
1) Create the template, and save it to a folder in SharePoint that your Team has access to.
(For this example I am using "OneDrive-Contoso/CorpTeam/SalesChannel/Templates/"
2) For each type of template, open that desktop app, click "File, Options, Save, then "Default personal templates location", then paste in ""OneDrive-Contoso/CorpTeam/SalesChannel/Templates/"
3) Now when you create a new file in that app, you'll see a Templates folder - click it, and you will see all the files, as will all your team members.