Turn custom Drive templates on or off for users

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As an administrator, you can set who in your organization can submit custom templates for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites. You can also create categories to organize templates. Templates allow your users to quickly create formatted files, such as project plans, budgets, or presentations.

On this page

• Turn on custom templates
• Create or remove template categories
• Restrict or moderate custom template submissions
• Allow templates with add-ons
• Edit or remove custom templates

Turn on custom templates

Allow users in your organization to find and use organization-specific templates from the Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites home screens. When custom templates are turned off, users can’t submit or use custom templates, but they can still use the standard template gallery.

1. Sign into yourGoogle Admin console.

   Sign in using youradministrator account(doesnotend in @gmail ).

2. In the Admin console, go to MenuAppsGoogle WorkspaceDrive and DocsTemplates.

   Requires having theDrive and Docs administrator privilege.

3. ClickTemplate Gallery settings.
4. Check theEnable custom templates for your organizationbox.

5. ClickSave.

Create or remove template categories

Set up template categories so users can quickly find relevant templates. For example, you might want separate categories for your marketing, sales, and human resources teams.

1. Sign into yourGoogle Admin console.

   Sign in using youradministrator account(doesnotend in @gmail ).

2. In the Admin console, go to MenuAppsGoogle WorkspaceDrive and DocsTemplates.

   Requires having theDrive and Docs administrator privilege.

3. ClickTemplate Gallery settings.
4. To add a category:
   1. ClickAdd a new category.
   2. Enter a category name and clickAdd.
5. To remove a category, next to the category, clickRemove.

   When you remove a category, you get an option to move its existing templates. If you don’t select a new category, existing templates are listed in the gallery asUncategorized.

6. ClickSave.

Restrict or moderate custom template submissions

1. Sign into yourGoogle Admin console.

   Sign in using youradministrator account(doesnotend in @gmail ).

2. In the Admin console, go to MenuAppsGoogle WorkspaceDrive and DocsTemplates.

   Requires having theDrive and Docs administrator privilege.

3. ClickTemplate Gallery submission settings.
4. Select who can submit templates:
   1. Open—Anyone in your organization can add or remove templates without approval.
   2. Moderated—Admins with theDocs Templates privilegeget an email request to approve each new template. The request is closed once any admin responds. Approved templates are added to the custom gallery. Rejected templates can be resubmitted.
   3. Restricted—Only admins with theDocs Templates privilegecan submit templates.
5. ClickSave.

Allow templates with add-ons

You can pair Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites templates with recommended add-ons. Add-ons are third-party tools that work with Docs editors. For example:

• A legal template might include an add-on for electronic signatures.
• A project plan template might include an add-on to create flow charts and other complex diagrams.

When users create a new document from a template, a sidebar shows any paired add-ons. This sidebar makes it easy to find and install the right tools for a task.

To allow add-ons:

1. Enable add-ons for Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites. You can optionally:
   • Enable all add-ons or deploy a specific set.
   • Create an allowlist of trusted add-ons.
2. If template submissions areModeratedin your organization (see step 8 in the previous section), review any add-ons before you approve templates. Links to paired add-ons are included in the template approval request.

Edit or remove custom templates

You can edit and remove templates you or your users created. To review existing templates, open the template galleries in GoogleDocs,Sheets,Slides,Forms,andSites.Note: You can’t remove templates in the Google template gallery.

Related topics

• Create document templates
• Create a file from a template