Office 2013 themes missing

Anonymous
2015-01-23T17:04:02+00:00

I now have a total of only 9 themes in Office 2013.  In the past there were dozens.  I teach a class on Microsoft Office and when students are asked to use a certain theme, they aren't finding them.  What happened?

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2015-02-12T00:43:30+00:00

This is a better option:

I have put a copy of the themes from various versions of Office (2007, 2010, 2013) in folders under the following folder of my One Drive

http://1drv.ms/1utd6rX

or

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmuIXmFDy-1axC47TeQd4-gsdPZi

If you download the theme that you want and save it in the

C:\Users[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes

folder, it should appear as a Custom Theme in the Themes dropdown.

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  1. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-02-12T04:24:48+00:00

    Thanks, Doug.

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-02-11T23:42:24+00:00

    Well, yeah, if I were trying to use these themes, I'd probably find it entirely unsatisfactory as well, but it is less unsatisfactory than if the themes were not available at all. This method is unnecessarily cumbersome, but at least it seems to achieve the required result.

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-02-11T22:30:55+00:00

    ENTIRELY UNSATISFACTORY in my view!

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-02-11T20:22:18+00:00

    What we're hearing from Microsoft is that the number of themes should not change (so having just nine is still wrong) but the specific themes may vary because that content is "dynamic." However, all the themes that have shipped with not only Office 2013 but also previous versions should be available at

    https://templates.office.com/en-us/Themes. You might think that you could download one of these just as you would a template and save it on your hard drive as a .thmx file, which would make it constantly available; in fact, it's more complex than that (and not entirely satisfactory, in my view); the method is described by mommylilly in this thread (note the change in URL, however; the site referenced in this post is a new one).

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