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
    2015-01-29T14:34:20+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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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-29T14:50:09+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-31T02:44:52+00:00

    I am a college student that does the courses online at home.  I am currently working on a project that needs a certain theme and a certain recolor and both are missing from my Office 365 that I purchased to have the course.  Several people have given me workaround steps to find them but for some reason they don't work for me.  If anyone has a solution I would like to know.  I am down the the deadline and can't wait 2 or 3 weeks for them to find out what is wrong.  The instructor has already extended the time span once and I am sure she is not going to do it again.  I would hate to get and F on something that I have no control over since I have an perfect A at the present time.

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  4. Steve Rindsberg 99,176 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-01-31T03:38:04+00:00

    See this regarding templates/themes (and suggest the same to your teacher, and give the teacher a link to this thread as well).  

    Have a look here

    Tell us more about the recolor issue.

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