Adding user created templates into Office 2007/2010 using Group Policy

I am trying to show some of our templates that we have created for work within Microsoft Office (work and excel) but I want them to show for everyone and not just 1 or 2 people. Being in a company that employ's 200+ people in multiple locations, the
task to manually go around to each and every machine to point to a different set of templates seems very time consuming. I am wondering if there is a gpo and/or registry edit that can be used. Anybody's assistance is greatly appreciated!
We have a mixture of Office 2007/2010. Server is a Win 2008 r2 standard.

Hi,
You can create and deploy custom templates using the steps below:
1. Create your templates.
2. Create thumbnail and preview files.
3. Create an XML configuration file that describes the custom template, thumbnail, and preview files.
4. Deploy a registry key that enables Office to read the XML configuration file.
For more information, please refer to the following article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178976(v=office.14).aspx
In addition, a simple way to achieve the goal is setting the file location for "Workgroup templates" and save the custom templates to the shared location,
then users can select the templates via File > New > My Templates. To change the location, you can modify the
SharedTemplates key under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\xx.0\Common\General].
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support
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Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
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