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Jun 19, 2017

Word online Templates

Hi All, My internal communications team would like to add our own branded templates to Office365 so that when you click on the word online tile you are presented with our corporate templates. ...

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AndrewWarland
Jun 19, 2017
You can get around this by uploading template documents (not dotx or dotm, but docx*) to an accessible 'brand' library and then asking users to open and then 'save as' from there. Making the library read-only will limit the potential for accidential change to the document.
*If you use 'dotx' or 'docm' the 'Edit in Browser' option is not available (at least in our tenant).

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Thanks, will discuss with communications team. I think it is doable and something that can be added to our instructions as part of a launch.

Cheers!

Tom Jamed

Brass Contributor

Jun 22, 2017

Hey James,

If you're using SharePoint you can also add Document Templates to Content Types. May be another way around this if your content is going to end up in SharePoint anyway.

Thanks,

Tom

PhiL_Marcisz
Copper Contributor
Dec 06, 2018
Hey Tom

do you work with the new Sharepoint? Do you know something like this is possible:

add several company templates (potx, dotx, ...)
make sure people find them (on a modern page > by adding the 'document library' functionality)
user clicks a file so it opens in Powerpoint, Word, Excel (as a new document)
make sure they don't save their creation in this document library with the company templates
More or less the most basic form of template management ;-). But:

I can upload template files into a new modern library
but I can't 'see them' when i integrate the document library web part
if I click the standard Powerpoint-template ... my file saves itself inside the document library.
So basically: make a nice page with company templates in a visual way (present them as tiles or so) > people click > program opens > make something > store somewhere.

Thanks for your info.