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Dorje-McKinnon's avatar
Dorje-McKinnon
Steel Contributor
Dec 04, 2020

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.

 

 

  • CFPersson's avatar
    CFPersson
    Copper Contributor

    Has anyone found a solution to this? Powerpoint works but not word and excel.

     

     

    Updated! 

     

     

  • Alex Cross's avatar
    Alex Cross
    Brass Contributor
    We 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).
  • perniklj's avatar
    perniklj
    Copper Contributor
    Hi 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
      • perniklj's avatar
        perniklj
        Copper Contributor
        Dorje-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 😕

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