Thanks for the reply but unfortunately this would not be feasible in our
network of over a thousand users and the profiles are all stored locally. We
were hoping that there is some way to configure MS Office to always look at
the All Users folder from the getgo.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

plannernyc wrote:
I understand custom created templates are stored in the profile of
the user that created them. But is there a way to configure it where
any user who logs onto that machine can get the same template? or do
I have to copy paste this template in all the user profile folders?

Put the template in any folder that can be accessed by all of the profiles.
In Word in each profile, go to Tools Options File Locations, and set the
Workgroup Templates location to point to that folder.

The same mechanism works with a location on a file server that can be
accessed from multiple computers on a network.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org