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?

Specifications

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
    2015-02-25T19:43:14+00:00

    It's been several months since this issue with Missing Design Themes was reported and still no fix.  Can we get some clarification on whether anyone at Microsoft is reviewing and fixing this issue?  Had to lead two classes through this PowerPoint course material with missing themes, and I am about to start leading a third class.  Help?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-21T16:29:22+00:00

    Too true.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-02-19T23:47:22+00:00

    How about no Raju. Just simply put, no. How about since coming across this issue myself, I have noticed throughout numerous threads addressing this issue, that no one from Microsoft has been able to in more than a half hearted attempt and a shoulder shrug. You want to know what is the biggest disappointing factor here? That the majority of the people I see in these threads, asking these questions, are doing so because they are taking a course. They are taking a course, where the course material has been put together using Microsoft's software. FULL STUDENT COURSES AND TEXTBOOKS HAVE BEEN MADE OFF OF YOUR PROGRAM THAT YOU THEN CHANGED, AND INSTEAD OF THOROUGHLY LOOKING INTO THE ISSUE, YOU'VE DONE NOTHING MORE THAN CHECK IN THE BOX FOLLOW THROUGH. I say this is a man who puts his full effort into any task or job that I do. I take it to heart when my job affects someone elses life. My family, has specifically done contracted work for Mr. Gates, and we pride ourselves on not cutting corners or taking the easy way out. How about you actively engage yourself in the conversation and task at hand and not look at your cheat sheet posted inches away from your monitor. Doing what is required of you and doing your job are two completely different things. For the sake of my school course, I will continue using your overpriced, product; but I will not continue to deal with your incompetent lip service, or that of the call center representative whom I just got off the phone with. When I am done with my course, and no longer need this product I will not be using it, or any other Microsoft product for that matter. We pay for this product, not for you to shrug us off when your product isn't functioning as agreed upon by our transaction, and the commitments you made with numerous schools by allowing them to build course material off of this product. If you didn't know the answer, a simple, "Hmmm, I don't know," would of sufficed. Preferably then followed by a, "I'll get right on that,". Instead, you threw your name into a thread to show that you did something (NOTHING) for your productivity logs. Your work ethic, professionalism, and customer service skills are below stomachable, as is the support offered on the numerous other threads, and the costumer/technical service rep whom with I got off the phone with. Way to shirk your duties and aim low MICROSOFT. Don't worry though, I'm sure that it's the type of quality service that Bill Gates wants out of his employees.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-01T02:12:14+00:00

    What I had to do to spare myself any future problems, I took a flash drive and created folders for each of my programs (Access, Word, Power Point, and Excel). I then took that flash drive to my school and saved all the themes to the folders I created for each program by creating a blank document, spreadsheet, workbook, and presentation, and assigning each theme separately saving each (individually) with the theme's name.

    Of course, after doing this my themes came back, but I still have a backup just in case.

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