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Custom vs Shared tabs in Office 2013 / 2016 start menu

When starting Word I have two tabs: One is named "Featured" the other is named "Shared", see picture:

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But in PowerPoint one is named "Featured" and the other is named "Custom"
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I have configured the setting "Workgroup Templates Path", which points to: C:\Templates\Office where I have copied templates with GPO.

The templates appear on both, so it's working I just need to know why the tab have to different names on some computers.

I also went through the settings (they only exist in Word): Word >Options > Advanced> File Locations...

I verified all the paths look the same on a computer where it says Custom and where it says Shared.

Does anyone have an idea?
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Where are the tabs from? Are they part of office or an addin?

Who made them?

If it is a custom tab from an addin the tab name is set by xml or a little bit of vba. Probably just an oversight of little consequence. 😊
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These Tabs are default in Office, if you configured Workgroup Templates path they will appear - or if you go to Word:  Word >Options > Advanced> File Locations... > Shared Templates Path

Give it any value and the tab appears.
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Cool. Thanks for sharing