To make it visible, you can go to Control Panel > Appearance and Personaliztion > Folder Options > General tab > Select Show All Folders. Or, you can search for “show hidden files” by clicking on the question mark in the upper right corner of your browser.
On Windows XP, it is C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataMicrosoftTemplates.
On Windows 7 and Vista, the default location is C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates. However, they will be displayed with any templates from the user’s local template location, or “user templates” location. The next time you click My templates in the new document window, the templates on the network drive will appear. Browse to the network share where you store templates, and then click OK.Click Workgroup Templates and then click Modify.Click Advanced, scroll to the General section, and then click File Locations.Open Word, click the Word button, and then click Word Options.
Here’s how to display templates that are stored on a network drive in the Word 2007 New Document pane, under My templates: Many of you who distribute or maintain documents and templates on a network have asked how to do this. To display network templates in the Word 2007 New Document pane
Your template is now displayed on the My Templates tab.
You can save a document as a template at any time and update the template whenever you like.
To create a Word template, you need to save a document to one of the template file formats.