XL2002: Templates in XLStart Folder Do Not Appear in Template Dialog Box

When you click General Templates in the the New Workbook task pane, your custom templates are not available in the Templates dialog box.

This problem occurs when you place your templates in the XLStart folder.

To work around this problem, store your custom templates in the default templates location, and store shared templates in the Workgroup templates location.

Default Templates Location

The default templates location depends on your operating system where User name is your Microsoft Windows logon name.

Workgroup Templates Location

To set the Workgroup templates location, follow these steps.

NOTE: The path that you want to use for the Workgroup templates location must already exist and be available before you follow these steps.

1.	Start Microsoft Word
2.	On the Tools menu, click Options.
3.	Click the File Locations tab.
4.	Under File types, click Workgroup templates, and then click Modify.
5.	Type the location for workgroup templates, and then click OK.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, you can store custom templates in either the Xlstart folder or the Startup location to have them appear in the New dialog box (click New on the File menu). In Microsoft Excel 2002, custom templates in these folders do not appear in the Templates dialog box (click General Templates on the task pane).