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Office 2013 themes missing

Anonymous
2015-01-23T17:04:02+00:00

I now have a total of only 9 themes in Office 2013.  In the past there were dozens.  I teach a class on Microsoft Office and when students are asked to use a certain theme, they aren't finding them.  What happened?

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-02-12T00:43:30+00:00

    This is a better option:

    I have put 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

    or

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

    If you download the theme that you want and save it in the

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

    folder, it should appear as a Custom Theme in the Themes dropdown.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-01-27T19:28:16+00:00

    Can somebody from Microsoft please answer this question?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-02T02:16:00+00:00

    I have a paper due tonight and the theme I need to apply "Depth" is gone. It was here last week, whats going on Microsoft? at least acknowledge the people who are having problems. If anyone has a solution, please reply. Thank you

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-28T22:05:31+00:00

    Office, Facet, Integral, Ion, Ion Board, Organic, Retrospect, Slice, Wisp, Banded, Basis, Berlin, Celestial, Circuit, Damask, Depth, Dividend, Droplet, Frame, Main Event, Mesh, Metropolitan, Parallax, Quotable, Savon, Slate, Vapor Trail, vapor trail(again), View, Wood type

    are the Themes you are suppose to have.

    Office, Facet, integral, Ion, Ion board, organic, retrospect, slice, wisp is usually what you end up with.

    I used to have all 30 themes on my laptop until I took my advance basic apps class. I started working a lot in word and using Sam. Since then, I have lost all themes except for those 9.

    This is very common to happen. No one seems to know why this happens and the threads for this go back as early as Sept 2014. Some update along that time cause themes to disappear to 9 themes. My desktop still has 30 themes, but my laptop has 9 themes. 

    There has to be something that a person does in word that causes the system to glitch out the themes to disappear to only 9. It is very frustrating for Teachers and Students to deal with this. Anyone who takes a class in word it is bound to have this happen.

    Microsoft knows it is a issue, but still does not have a solution is what I heard. I heard reinstalling word does not fix the problem. Also downloading each individual theme is time consuming from another computer plus who to say it still won't happen again. Our computers at school are having this issue and they have reloaded the themes just to have it happen again.

    It would be great if they could patch this in Word. Hopefully we don't have to wait until office 2016 or Windows 10 for this fix.

    Please fix it!

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-23T22:00:18+00:00

    I have the same issue and we are using SNAP in our Word class.  It is asking for themes that not part of Word 2013.

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