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?

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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
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
    2015-03-11T00:15:48+00:00

    Well as of today I am downloading >500mb of Office 2013 updates.

    I just noticed this problem today after not using Excel for about a week. Last time I used excel all themes were there, now they are not. Just 9 of them.

    Hopefully this large update contains the fix as I have homework to do!

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  2. Steve Rindsberg 99,176 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-03-11T01:14:51+00:00

    >> Hopefully this large update contains the fix as I have homework to do!

    And if not, you can always try what I suggested.  ;-)

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-11T05:39:02+00:00

    Update didn't work (All MSOffice updates failed for some reason) but your temporary fix did by changing the date... Why is it doing that...

    Gotta love programming you fix one thing and create a bug you could never think of.

    Annoying that I need to do that every time but at least it works. Thanks!

    Update: after setting the template to the one I want I went back to the tab and the they were all gone again.

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  4. Steve Rindsberg 99,176 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-03-11T14:35:06+00:00

    >> Why is it doing that...

    Fundamentally, it's because MS either thinks we want to have all our stuff in the cloud or has decided that we WILL have all our stuff in the cloud, regardless of what we want.  Only sometimes clouds rain on our parades.  The code in Office that keeps us updated and in synch with the cloud is busted.

    You could try the date trick, then copy all of the templates that appear off to another folder so you've got backups when/if they get deleted again.

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