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Dorje-McKinnon
Dec 04, 2020Steel Contributor
Word Online no OfficeTemplate library - does anyone have this yet ?
Hi Everyone,
In January we ran the Add-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary officetemplatelibrary powershell command.
Like many tenants it took over 48 hours to work, but in the end when I open Word, click new, click Tenant name, I can see the docx files in the SharePoint library specified in the powershell command.
Great our users of Word Desktop can see the templates and use them. So can our Excel and PowerPoint users.
BUT
Word Online users can't see the OfficeTemplate library when they open a new document from https://www.office.com/launch/word
They can see all the publicly visible templates but not our OfficeTemplate library as a folder.
NOTE
PowerPoint online users DO see the OfficeTemplates library as a folder when they start a new presentation from https://www.office.com/launch/powerpoint
QUESTION
Does anyone have the OfficeTemplate library folder in Word or Excel online yet ? Just like exists in for PowerPoint online after you've run the Add-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary officetemplatelibrary powershell command.
- Dorje-McKinnonSteel Contributor
Just revisiting this thread - I just tried again 3 years later using https://www.office.com/create BUT still only the PowerPoint templates are accessible. No Word templates, No excel templates accessible to Online Word or Online Excel.
Chris McNultyor Mark-Kashman - perhaps you could update us all on when Word/Excel templates might become available via https://www.office.com/create
- CFPerssonCopper Contributor
Has anyone found a solution to this? Powerpoint works but not word and excel.
Updated!
- atatOnWheelsCopper Contributor
Yup, still seems to be the case:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/organization-assets-library
- Alex CrossBrass ContributorWe have the same experience in our tenant. Last week we added OfficeTemplateLibrary and our enterprise Word & Excel templates are NOT visible/accessible to end users within the ONLINE application. However, PowerPoint templates are available in online application. Additionally, all templates we published are available from within their respective desktop applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio).
- pernikljCopper ContributorHi Dorje,
to this date I can see 232 views but zero replies. Have you found any solution? We encountered exatly the same issue as we set template library yesterday. Neither Word nor Excel shows our corporate templates. Only PowerPoint does 😕
Regards
Jan- Dorje-McKinnonSteel Contributor
perniklj No. I have just checked and we have had no change.
Perhaps Mark-Kashman or Chris McNulty would like to add this as a topic to #intranetzone and help us out ?- pernikljCopper ContributorDorje-McKinnon
We raised question upon technical support. According to their statements and tech documentation, it is not any error (unsurprisingly). Templates can only be used for PowerPoint so far. No exact date when it will be functional for Word and Excel 😕