Prevent Office 2013 from creating "Custom Office Templates" directory in My Documents

Office 2013 keeps creating the directory C:\Users\user\Documents\Custom Office Templates. I like to keep My Documents tidy for quick access.

Is there anyway to prevent Office from continually re-creating the Custom Office Templates directory after I remove it? Moving it somewhere else would work too. I'm using Windows 7.

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According to the answer to the question Custom Template location in Office 2013 on the Microsoft Community forums:

You can choose to override this setting by specifying a Personal Templates Folder. This can be done by going to File > Options > Save and manually entering a folder path. This needs to be done for each application, and for any application that does not have a Personal Templates path manually set, Office will create the Custom Office Templates folder the first time you save a template, and will set the Personal Templates path to this location.

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Hide the folder under properties. You won't be able to see it but MS Office and Windows can still access it.

• Right-click on the directory
• Select "Properties"
• Check the "Hidden" checkbox under "Attributes"

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I was plagued by this problems for months - constantly deleting "Custom Office Templates" from My Documents only to have the pesky SOB pop up again. Finally I found the solution - when "Custom Office Templates" shows up in your Documents, right click on it, and choose Properties. Click on "Hidden" and voila!!

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