Policy

Disable web templates in File | New and on the Office Start screen

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Disable web templates in File | New and on the Office Start screen
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Office 2016 > Tools | Options | General | Web Options...
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting controls whether users can download templates from Office.com from within the Office applications. If you enable this policy setting, users will not see featured templates from Office.com in File | New and on the Office Start screen and will not be able to download templates from within Office applications. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will see featured templates from Office.com in File | New and on the Office Start screen and will be able to download templates from within Office applications. Note - Enabling this policy setting does not prevent users from downloading templates from Office.com using their Web browsers.

Internal name
L_DisablehyperlinkstowebtemplatesinFileNewandtaskpanes
Policy ID
928e051f64c9
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\general
Value name
disablehyperlinkstowebtemplates
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\general
Value name
disablehyperlinkstowebtemplates
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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