Has anyone noticed that Themes are now missing?

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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

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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Anonymous

2015-01-21T05:06:49+00:00

Same here.

I had at least 5 rows of templates to choose from but now I am down to 2. I managed to retrieve some of them by downloading from the Microsoft Office website but I am still missing about 3 (I use the "Basis" and "View" template a lot so it sucks to see that I don't have them any more).

It's funny how I discovered this problem today and found that someone had made a thread about this already.
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Steve Rindsberg 99,176 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2015-01-20T20:13:04+00:00

Then it'd be up to whoever manages the workstations to script this, or follow one of the other suggestions in the thread.

It might be worth raising the question in the appropriate section of TechNet (and maybe pasting in a link to this thread) as well. TechNet's more liable to be able to supply answers that apply to a managed context.
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Anonymous

2015-01-20T19:18:32+00:00

Set your computer's clock ahead by at least one month. Toss in a few days just to be safe.

Start PPT again, give it a little time to settle down; it might be (we hope) trying to download the missing templates. You might need to start it, let it sit, then restart after a few minutes.

Let us know in a reply here if this helps make more templates available.

Managed workstations cannot change the date/time; this is an administrator feature only. Most workstations at our school are still only displaying 9 design themes.
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Anonymous

I did confuse the term Theme for Template. I apologize for this error.

I ended up "resolving" it on my end - though it isn't a perfect solution. I created a batch script that downloads the required themes using wget.

@echo off cd %~dp0 AT > NUL IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 ( SET TEMPLATEPATH="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15" IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15" ( ECHO "Cannot find Template path! Please run this tool as a standard user." PAUSE EXIT ) ) ELSE ( SET TEMPLATEPATH="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes" ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Wood Type.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS103090434&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS103090434&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Wood Type.thmx" move "Wood Type.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Parallax.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS103457496&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS103457496&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Parallax.thmx" move "Parallax.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Retrospect.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS102900769&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS102900769&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Retrospect.thmx" move "Retrospect.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Frame.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS103457475&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS103457475&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Frame.thmx" move "Frame.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Facet.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS102900688&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS102900688&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Facet.thmx" move "Facet.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Banded.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS103090430&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS103090430&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Banded.thmx" move "Banded.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Wisp.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS102892315&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS102892315&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Wisp.thmx" move "Wisp.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Organic.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS102900743&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS102900743&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Organic.thmx" move "Organic.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% ) IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\Document Themes 15\Savon.thmx" ( wget.exe "http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/file.aspx?AssetId=TS103457510&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" rename "file.aspx?AssetId=TS103457510&lc=en%2DUS&ax=1&CTT=204" "Savon.thmx" move "Savon.thmx" %TEMPLATEPATH% )

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