In MS Project 2013 Professional, finding the location of your templates is not a straightforward process. Once you find out where MS Project stores templates on your hard drive, you can adjust your settings so that any templates you create are also saved to the same location.
MS Project 2013 – Finding Template Location
Before following these steps, when I click the File tab and New, I don’t see any option to select templates stored on my hard drive.
Do a search for *.mpt files. (Mpt is the file extension for Microsoft Project templates.)
Look for the Global file, which will probably be in a Folder named 1033.
Right-click the file and select Properties. The following dialog box will pop up.
Right-click next to Location, and select Select All.
Copy the location by clicking CTRL C.
Hit the OK button.
MS Project 2013 – Set Default Personal Templates Location
Open MS Project (if necessary), and launch a blank file.
Click the File tab.
Click Options, then Save.
In the Save templates section, click next to Default personal templates location section.
Hit CTRL V to paste the location.
Click OK at the box at the bottom of the dialog box.
Once you’ve set the default template location, you’ll see two tabs when you click the File tab, and click New: Featured and Personal.
(Instead of Featured, you might see Enterprise).
Now you can access any personal templates you’ve created by clicking the Personal tab.
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