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
    2014-12-12T15:14:38+00:00

    From today ALL the templates are back here.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-11T04:18:16+00:00

    I don't have Wood Type (and it doesn't return on a search either) but I do have Banded. Windows 8 (not 8.1) Office 2013 Pro. An update came through this morning but I don't know if that had any effect as I don't use the templates so never pay them any attention...

    Lucy

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-11T00:30:50+00:00

    If you are referring to the Design templates (also known as themes) we have discovered they have been removed after a Windows 8.1 update. Originally there were 27 themes, now there are only 9. This has happened in Word, PowerPoint and Excel. We are running Office 2013 Professional Pro, not Office 365 subscription. One computer was updated some time ago and we noticed the missing design themes after the fact. Another computer (Office 2013 Professional Pro; Windows 8.1) had all 27 this morning; after Windows update at 11AM today, the themes disappeared and now that computer is down to only 9.

    Cannot find any support at Microsoft about this or acknowledgement that this was related to Windows update.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-11-20T13:12:03+00:00

    I never use the built in templates but I can confirm that Wood Type and Banded have disappeared here too from the "Front Page" (Office 2013 Pro  on W7 Ultimate). They are still in the Design Tab

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