Document saved as template not going to My Templates

[Diana van den Berg]

For as long as I can remember when I have saved a Word document (I have Microsoft Office 2007), as a template, it has automatically saved to My Templates. Suddenly today it is going to the source file. That is NOT happening with Excel. I saved Excel spreadsheets as templates today and they went to My Templates.

How can I change this and get Word documents saved as templates saving automatically to My Templates please?

Thank you.

[HansV]

I'm not sure that it's possible to do that. At some point, Microsoft stopped switching to the Templates folder, as you have found. I think they changed it again in Word 2013 and/or 2016.

Do you see "Trusted Templates" in the navigation pane on the left hand side of the Save As dialog? If so, clicking it will take you to your user templates folder.

[Diana van den Berg]

Thanks for the information, and as always, the mega-quick and excellent response, Hans.

I wish Microsoft hadn't done that. Yes, I did see Trusted Templates and I have now clicked there.

It is strange (but pleasing) that Microsoft didn't do that with Excel, though.