Hide all Office-provided templates on the Office Start screen and in File | New
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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 Office-provided templates (from Office.com and shipped with the Office clients) are hidden on the Office Start screen and in File | New. If you enable this policy setting, users will not see any Office provided templates on the Office Start screen nor in File | New. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will see Office provided templates on the Office Start screen nor in File | New. Note - enabling this policy setting does not prevent users from downloading templates from Office.com using their Web browsers and does not prevent users from using Office-provided templates installed on their hard drive using Windows Explorer to launch those templates.

Internal name
L_DisableOfficeTemplates
Policy ID
bb70cd0bbe1b
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
disableofficetemplates
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\general
Value name
disableofficetemplates
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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