I am trying to change my Default Template Location in PowerPoint 2016 and the changes will not take. My desired path is "D:\My Documents\Custom Office Templates". Although it doesn't seem to matter what pat h I try, it won't take. Works fine in Excel.
* Even went so far as to Copy/Paste the text from t he Excel configuration to the PowerPoint configuration without success.
* Ran the repair option for Office. No help.
* Using a suggestion from this site to go into the Registry and create a "PersonalTemplates" key did not help. PowerPoint knows if I enter an invalid path; only accepting a valid one. Tried the original C: path and it won't save that either.
* Clicking on Personal in File=>New gives me an error: "Sorry, we had some trouble connecting to get templates and can't show them right now".
* can't find much on this kind of error. Only finding messages on where to go and edit the path.
Additional suggestions greatly appreciated.
If an alias, you could try the following, replacing "UserName" with your user name:
D:\Users\UserName\Document