Not all Word 2013 Document Themes available

Anonymous
2014-10-28T19:50:20+00:00

I am a computer teacher and some of my students have many document themes available in Word 2013 and others have very few.  What can I look at on the student's profile to make all document themes available to all of my students?

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Anonymous
2014-11-13T22:41:57+00:00

I ran into the same problem, and after following the advice that was given on here I had no luck. I did however, find a work-around! 

If you go to the Microsoft Templates/Themes site linked below:

https://store.office.live.com/templates/Themes

you should be able to browse to the missing theme you need. I know, I know..it says it is for Power Point...BUT.....follow these steps:

  • Click on the theme you need
  • Click the Open in Power Point Online option (I do not know if you need to have PowerPoint installed, but here it gives me a message saying the theme will be saved to my OneDrive)
  • Click Continue if you have the same message pop up
  • Now it should open up a Power Point presentation in the theme you need
  • Click on File
  • Click Save As
  • Click the Download button that should look like this:
  • Once I clicked download, a blank white screen popped up in a pop-up, but when I closed it and looked in my Downloads folder the Power Point Presentation file was there.
  • Rename the file (I chose the name of the theme) and put it in a file you can easily locate.
  • Now when you open MS Word and choose to browse for themes, go to this file and select it. Even though it says on the website that it is for Power Point, I was successful in applying this as the theme file I needed.

Hopefully someone out there finds this information helpful, because I was going crazy trying to figure this out!

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2015-02-15T09:16:13+00:00

The themes should be saved in the following folder:

C:\Users[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes

and they should then appear as Custom Themes in the Themes dropdown.

For users of earlier versions of Office, there is a copy of the themes from various versions of Office (2007, 2010, 2013) in folders under the following folder of my One Drive

http://1drv.ms/1utd6rX

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-01-12T21:31:20+00:00

    I have HUP from work of both 2013 and 2016, but just got 2013 on my lab at school (sigh, I hate that we teach behind the current )  so I have not bought any for myself  and they are not 366...

    I can[t even do dropbox at work.  I do have a google drive for chrome

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  2. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-01-11T23:30:39+00:00

    The old link still works for me, but here is another one that you can use

    https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmuIXmFDy-1axC47TeQd4-gsdPZi

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-01-11T13:33:22+00:00

    Dear 

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    Caer_MAB

    Do you have an Office 365 account? if so I can share a folder with many document themes.  From there you would be able to download them and I can tell you where they need to be saved in order for them to show up in MS Word.

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