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We have a library for all business templates in our company. However, access is usually performed by directly opening the template via a webbrowser. The outcome is, that instead of opening a new document based on the template, Word or other office programs will open the template. This causes all inexperienced users to save their filled forms as templates all over their hard drives and network drives.
It is not uncommon, that they can't find the saved documents in the aftermath.
I tried to select the document library as path for templates in word, but I get the error message: You can't use an internet-address here.
Is there any known workaround? Sharepoint 2013 and office 2013
This is an interesting method. However I still have the problem, that an opened template will be saved as a template again. The other drawback is, that I have to make a template in the library for every existing template (roghly 50). – Ariser – 2015-11-25T11:45:11.213
1Not sure what's happening with your template - but if you save it as a normal docx it's still a "template" for SharePoint, and that should fix your issue. The 2nd part - there are no short cuts there, they have to be moved to take advantage of this part of SharePoint. It's an upfront cost - once it's done you don't have to worry about it again. – Jesus Shelby – 2015-11-26T15:20:38.977