Add templates to TeXworks

Question

Using TeXworks 0.4.3 r.857 (MiKTeX 2.9) on Windows 7 I am trying to add an arbitrary folder containing a template so that it can be seen from TeXworks's New from Template... option. I can't figure out how to inform TeXworks as to where it should look.

I understand I can add templates next to the built in ones that appear under C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9\TeXworks\0.4\templates. There are multiple files that go with this template, including a .sty class that I would like to keep in one place accessible to the user (probably through a SVN repo), so I don't like the idea of putting the templates in that hidden directory. I can tell MiKTeX to use an arbitrary root for packages, and would like to do the same for TeXworks and templates.

Answer 1

Install a second version of TeXworks from http://www.tug.org/texworks/ This version won't interfere with the native version installed by MiKTeX. Templates of this version are placed in MyName\TeXworks\templates where MyName is your username under Windows. Sorry, I couldn't find anything better...