Hiding Workgroup Template folder in Office 2013

Hi,
It was suggested that this may be an appropriate forum for asking the following question
I have the following setup... In Group Policy (Computer Configuration) I copy the corporate Templates to the WorkGroup Templates folder on every PC (under Default\appData). We also have a personal templates folder (under %USERNAME%\appData).
The workgroup templates are available in both the workgroup and users personal templates folder.
When a user creates a new file in WORD or Excel they are presented with 2 templates folders. Is there anyway of hiding the Workgroup Templates folder and just showing the user their personal templates folder? (I want to keep the Workgroups templates
folder, I just do not want to display it in WORD)
Or should I just try to rename the templates folders so they can be distinguished from each other
Thanks

Hi,
As per the description, I understand that you've copied your corporate templates into the WorGroup Templates folder, and now you would like to hide this folder to users but keep the templates/folder. If I have misunderstood your concern, please let me know.
I have tested this on my own machine, to hide this folder to users, you'll need to clean the location for
Workgroup template in FILE>Options>Advanced>File Locations... button under
General section.
We are not able to clean this directly in Word, but we can do this by modifying the registry key or using GPO:
1) Clean the value of this registry key directly for each user:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General\SharedTemplates
2) Group policy for this is: User Configuration\Microsoft Office 2013\Shared paths\workgroup templates path
Hope it helps.
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if you check the registry directly, is this registry path correctly populated?
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\15.0\common\general!sharedtemplates
If you set the setting by using the UI, it will set this key instead:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General!sharedtemplates
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On every single machine on the domain?
On every single machine on the domain?

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