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?

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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

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

2015-01-29T14:50:09+00:00

Have a read of Steve's PPTFAQ page here

http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01208-Missing-templates-in-PowerPoint-2013.htm
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Anonymous

2015-01-29T14:34:20+00:00

I have also lost themes in the Themes group on the Design tab of PowerPoint 2013. I have only the first 9 remaining, and this happened this week after an update. I had all themes on Tuesday. After the update Tuesday night, I had only 9 on Wednesday morning.

However, it is still possible to use a specific theme by selecting that theme's template after clicking New on the File tab. All of the theme templates display on the New tab, and it's possible to select the template to create a new presentation, then import into it the slides I wanted to style with that theme. The templates must still be present on my computer--I just can't apply a theme to an existing presentation.

This is maddening.
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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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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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