Has anyone noticed that Themes are now missing?

Anonymous
2014-11-18T20:50:13+00:00

Has anyone noticed that themes disappeared from all Word, Excel, and PowerPoint?

I had Wood Type and Banded the other day. However, they have disappeared from the list of themes, along with many other themes. Any idea on why this occured?

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Operating System: Windows 8.1

Office: Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus (15.0.4667.1002)

EDIT - 1/20/15

I updated the Title and original post to state theme(s) instead of template(s). I apologize for any confusion.

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Anonymous
2015-06-18T16:36:57+00:00

Can you add the Parrallax theme to your one drive so I can download it.  The dropbox you gave is no longer there.  

thanks. 

Short answer: I thought I was going to have to say no because my 2013 systems don't have all the themes available. But I was able to scare up a bunch of them, so they've been added to my OneDrive folder. http://1drv.ms/1yrdZRq

Long answer: For those of you just coming into this thread, a bunch of themes have been missing from the PowerPoint Start screen. (This is the same screen you can also access by choosing File | New in PowerPoint.) 

Note: The themes that usually show on the PowerPoint Start screen are actually superthemes. Superthemes are like "regular" themes, but they give you variants. Variants are the options you see when you click one of the themes in the Start screen and get that dialog with different color options, pattern options, etc. You also see these variants on the Design tab of the Ribbon.

If you're missing the superthemes, you can get them here on my OneDrive: http://1drv.ms/1yrdZRq

Download the THMX files. Do NOT open them and save them; this will strip out the variants. Instead, just download them and put them in this folder: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes. The superthemes must be placed here in order for the variants to be available to presentations based on the superthemes.

To use them, open PPT. The themes may or may not show on your start screen. If they're there, you can click on the theme and you'll see the dialog box where you can select one of the variants. Otherwise, click CUSTOM and then the Document Themes folder. The themes should show up there. Click a theme to open that dialog where you can begin a new presentation based on the theme or one of its variants. Change variants on the Design tab if you wish.

Here's the available files. The ones I added today, some are repeats of ones that were already available. They're named like TM########[[fn=ThemeName]].thmx because I grabbed them from live "managed content" folders, and that's how they were named there. You shouldn't have to rename them. 

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-01-27T16:50:40+00:00

    Thank you Steve! I have been struggling with this for awhile. My company develops learning and assessment software for Microsoft Office and we have had a number of customers with this issue. I will pass along the information.

    Also, I had been missing some SmartArt diagrams (Circle Process to be specific) and this seemed to fix that issue as well.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-22T14:56:23+00:00

    Echo S,

    I'll leave this here as an alternative, there are 20 PP themes here. These were found in my

    "C:\Users\ "YOUR USER" \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\LiveContent\15\Managed\Document Themes\1033" folder.

    Power Point Themes backup.

    Here are some additional finds if anyone needs them. The folder is a mess, but there might be something in there someone needs one day. I found these in various "1033" folders scattered around my hard drive.

    Various Office Finds

    Both links are from my personal DropBox account, and shouldn't contain anything suspicious.

    Thanks for reading,

    SfireX

    That's fantastic, SfireX! Thank you!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-22T06:42:10+00:00

    Echo S,

    I'll leave this here as an alternative, there are 20 PP themes here. These were found in my

    "C:\Users\ "YOUR USER" \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\LiveContent\15\Managed\Document Themes\1033" folder.

    Power Point Themes backup.

    Here are some additional finds if anyone needs them. The folder is a mess, but there might be something in there someone needs one day. I found these in various "1033" folders scattered around my hard drive.

    Various Office Finds

    Both links are from my personal DropBox account, and shouldn't contain anything suspicious.

    Thanks for reading,

    SfireX

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-21T19:15:35+00:00

    I've put the themes I have available currently here. http://1drv.ms/1yrdZRq It's a public folder so anybody can download. 

    Basis

    Depth

    Dividend

    Facet

    Integral

    Ion Boardroom

    Ion

    Office Theme

    Organic

    Retrospect

    Slice

    View

    Wisp

    Also, I suggest that you put any of the missing themes into this folder:

    C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes.

    The reason I suggest you put them here is because PowerPoint will see them there and make the theme variants (which you can see on the Design tab) available in presentations based on that theme. If the theme files are elsewhere, then PowerPoint won't offer up the theme variants. If the them variants aren't important to you, then put 'em wherever you want. :-)

    The reason the theme variants might be important, other than the color/font variations you can easily see, is that the theme variants are necessary to keep the background graphics from stretching when you change slide size. For example, on the Integral theme, if you didn't have the theme variants available, then when you switch from widescreen to 4x3, that circular pattern will become squashed. If you have the theme variants available, then that 4x3 option is built-in and the circular pattern remains circular.

    These themes that have built-in size (and color) variants are called superthemes. MSFT is technically providing superthemes, not just "regular" themes, but you have to have a copy of them in the right place so PPT will see the variants.

    The superthemes that MSFT puts on your system automagically are in places PPT can detect so it sees those variants. But if you download themes (by searching within the PPT start screen or downloading from my OneDrive folder, for example), you have to put a copy of them in that folder I listed above so that PPT sees the supertheme. You can still put those themes elsewhere also so you can access them easily, and you can start presentations from those themes, but you need a copy in that Document Themes folder so PPT knows there are variants available.

    Additionally, some of the themes on the PPT start screen actually download when you use them the first time, and they don't actually show variants, which sucks. I don't know what's up with that, but obviously something's going wrong.

    One last thing. I said elsethread that there's no reason you shouldn't start a presentation then save that file as a theme, but you should know that saving a theme that way strips out its supertheme properties. So it doesn't matter where you put it, in that case you're not gonna get variants.

    That's way more info than you all wanted, I'm sure, but I figure it's good to be aware of these things. I'm sorry it's so complicated and convoluted.

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