How to add branded templates to Word, Excel & PowerPoint start pages

Great video. Have you done a video(s) on using custom color themes and palettes? I think that would be a great topic as it relates to branding using company colors!

Hi Kevin, Thank you for the videos, they are very helpful. I have a question - I have created a Template document with Quick parts, headers and footers, and want to set it to the default for the company. How do I achieve this? at the moment, it is published to the Organizational Asset Library, so staff can access it from the selection under our company tab, but when they click on Blank, it gives them the default Word document - This is where I want to add mine? How do I get the Global template pushed out to all ?

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Legend I was trying to this for my company. Thanks

We did this and it's populated to the desktop Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Does it work with the on the web apps other than Powerpoint? Powerpoint on the web is the only one showing the templates after 1.5 weeks of creating the Office Templates. Discussion threads mention this same thing about only seeing it on Powerpoint on the web and not Word or Excel on the web.

Great tutorial, I have completed all the steps but days later the only issue I have is that my word templates wont appear in Word Online? Any advice?

Hi Kevin, nice tutorial. Thank you!
I tried applying it for Word template but my colleagues could not find the Word template. It worked great though with the Powerpoint template. Any ideas why it didn't show for Word online? I tried saving it as .dotx and .docx

I guess I'm not clear if this is available to everyone in the tenant or if I have to run that PS script on everyone's computer?

Thanks Kevin. Excellent instructional video that was clear and concise and easy to follow.

Great Video, will this effect any of the templates setup in Teams Site ?

hmmm my very helpful comment has been removed? why?

Can you add pdf documents to the document repositories?

Hi Kevin, Thank you for great video. Is it possible to make branded templates default one or restrict user visibility to Branded Templates only?

Great video! Do you know of any way to do the same thing for images....like from within PowerPoint? So, when you open up Home/Insert Pictures/Online Pictures... it will list your company directory to pick logos from in addition to other online sources?

Thank you so much for this tutorial! It's exactly what we were looking for. We tried it out and it works perfectly in our virtual desktop environment, local apps, and PowerPoint online, but it's not working in Word or Excel online. I've waited 48 hrs for it to show up. Is there some extra step to make it show up in Word or Excel online? Thank you.

Hi Kevin, Thanks for sharing excellent topic. Very useful. Does it support custom template as well in office desktop app.

Do you know if it is possible to just distribute it to ONE site in Teams?

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Can I update the file names and upload additional templates after the repository is set up?

Is there a way to add the templates to the web app versions as well or is it only via Sharepoint for those? Kind of silly for MS to miss that in the web apps.

How to delete a template?

It was perfect, any idea how to integrate also "Theme/standards colors" to word and powerpoint doc that matches the branding of the company? Thank you very much for all your videos, very helpful and inspirationnal!

Hey Kevin,
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your great content.
But for clarification as I am ready correctly, you only need an E3 and E5 license to use it for the web application.

As far as I'm concerned for the desktop application other licenses will be ok as well?

"For the organization assets library to appear to a user in PowerPoint on the web, the user must be assigned a license to Office 365 E3 or E5. Users who use the Word, Excel, or PowerPoint desktop app also need Microsoft 365 Apps Version 2002 or later. (The organization assets library is not available in Word on the web or Excel on the web.)"

What happened to Custom Office Templates??? I hope this is not how it works now.

Hello Kevin,
I already added a template to SharePoint and action like you on this video. And run the script in SharePoint Online Management, everything is fine, but I still didn't see the template Powerpoint for both the Desktop application and the Web version. Could you help me? Tks a lot.

Powerpoint templates are working but themes do not appears, is it still supported in the cdn ?

How to do it on mac? I have installed it sharepoint management shell, but what's next? Copied codes doesn't work, it just don't recognise.

Sadly this is outdated af

Really clear - thanks.
1. Is this still the best way to bring branded templates to all users?
2. Any idea of progress for this feature for Online licence holders (eg F3)

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Hi Kevin, I followed your all steps but no luck, I also checked after 24 hours but same issue. when I used your steps then it show success but Template folder is not visible on word, excel, power point and Pin. only it show on SharePoint local sync folder. Please suggest how can I resolve this issue.

Great tutorial. Is it possible to make branded templates pinned for all?

Quick question, would people with no permission to the sharepoint / library be able to use the templates. Better yet, can I segregate the usage of templates to certain groups of people?

nice video, unfortunatelly Microsoft is making things worst and more complicated at each new release. It was so much easyer on office 2010. Now it sucks

The Powershell keeps saying an error about "all but external users" must have read access to the document library (it is in Finnish so I translated it roughly here). The account I am using to perform the operation is Global Administrator and also Owner of the Site and the Library. The "all but external users" seems like a classic sharepoint preset group, and I found it and it has no internal editable information.

Kevin, I was an admin assistant who was constantly send slides put together by anywhere form 10-15 people the night before a partners meeting and spent all night redoing them to be cohesive based on our org's branding guides. When you rolled this out I built the template myself based on this video and the "template" my org used that our designers had built in InDesign. It took about 6 months due to my other work assignments and getting my SharePoint administrator and graphic design team on board BUT IT WAS A GAME CHANGER. Here is my feedback thought: A follow-up video with how to actually build a template would make the world of difference.
-The difference between saving a PowerPoint as a template file and deleting slides you don't need vs building a template in the Slide Master View and dropping in the slides you want
-What Role the Master Title Slide Plays
-What place holders are
-How to format the 5 levels of text different in the text place holder

I'm also wondering, if the person who builds it and drops it into the repository has a custom font, but no one else in the org does. When they open it on their computer, will they be able to create a power point with that custom font or will it default to Arial or something?

Thx Kevin great video. I wish Official Microsoft had such good video's

there a way do this without powershell?

Excellent Video.

How do i get the Power Shell to work on my MacBook Pro.

Hello, thank you for this video. If I want to replace the location for the templates folder, do I just repeat the steps again? Thanks :)

Why on earth have MS made such a simple thing so complicated?

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@kevin can you please let me know how can we make these template default as whenever user open excel these templates will. open automaticallg

My script are successfully run but template not showing in Word desktop app

Late to the party here, is there a way to set a default template to be used within PowerPoint / Word Web Apps?
Also, i cant seem to get this to work in the Web Apps.

Feel like theres a bit of a big gap here.

Is there a way to set up SharePoint Online Management Shell on a mac? Or is there a way around to add a branded PPT template on SharePoint without using SharePoint Online Management Shell?

Is it possible to have custom names for the template tab in PowerPoint? Our orgName has random numbers in it and if that just shows org name it would look weird and unprofessional. Love your videos by the way.

That is about sharing a specific template, what ways do you use to share a used template inside an organization?, Suppose you share a cost calculation with the purchase department, and they will modify the input depending in cost availability and initial cost calculations