Not all Word 2013 Document Themes available

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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

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 MVP Volunteer Moderator

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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Anonymous

2015-01-07T17:26:15+00:00

We are having this same issue at our school. When I logged on the affected computer as the administrator, all of the themes displayed. Then logged back in with the student account not all of the themes showed. This is a huge issue as we have several computer classrooms and will need all of the computers working correctly when the next semester begins.
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Anonymous

2014-12-19T15:31:14+00:00

No reply yet. We are going to open a support ticket with Microsoft. I was thinking it may be a problem with their cloud service. When students log in with Active Directory, they are automatcially logged in to Office applications. We are right in the middle of an O365 implementation and I thought maybe the cloud access was not completely configured and causing the themes download to fail. So, if I figure it out, I will be sure to post again. Our students are following a curriculum that requires them to use the design themes, and sometimes they will load, sometimes they won't. So far we have not seen a common thread in it.
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Anonymous

2014-12-18T20:15:20+00:00

No. I just logged in today to see if an answer was posted by Raju. We have several business labs whose students are required to use the design themes for assignments and they can't see them. It must be a fairly new issue because there is very little information on it.
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