This policy setting controls whether Office-provided templates (from Office.com and shipped with the Office clients) are hidden on the Office Start screen and in File | New.
If you enable this policy setting, users will not see any Office provided templates on the Office Start screen nor in File | New.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will see Office provided templates on the Office Start screen nor in File | New.
Note - enabling this policy setting does not prevent users from downloading templates from Office.com using their Web browsers and does not prevent users from using Office-provided templates installed on their hard drive using Windows Explorer to launch those templates.
| Registry Hive | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
| Registry Path | software\policies\microsoft\office\15.0\common\general |
| Value Name | disableofficetemplates |
| Value Type | REG_DWORD |
| Enabled Value | 1 |
| Disabled Value | 0 |