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New themes issues - actual default excel-template change to revert
Hi everybody. My first question in this group, so please excuse any posting errors (and advice how to do better next time). WINDOWS VERSION: 23H2 (Build SO 22631.2861) MICROSOFT 365 Apps for ent...
- I have the same problem, and I am pretty dismayed to see there is no answer to this. I have excel macros that work based on colour, and then after a copy and paste of data from a source file to a new file, all the colours change and everything gets screwed up as a result.
I am pretty unimpressed that changes like this just seem to happen and it seems the only place to try to get an answer is on a "community" page where someone may or may not answer you.
I can see you can change the theme back on a new file by going to "Page-Layout" and then re-select the Theme you want there, if your old one is there (for me I wanted "Office 2013 - 2022"), and that is fine to fix for the new file, but not something I want to have to do every time, I want to change it so the default is the one I want, not just the latest theme that someone in the Microsoft team thought might be nice!
I have the same problem, and I am pretty dismayed to see there is no answer to this. I have excel macros that work based on colour, and then after a copy and paste of data from a source file to a new file, all the colours change and everything gets screwed up as a result.
I am pretty unimpressed that changes like this just seem to happen and it seems the only place to try to get an answer is on a "community" page where someone may or may not answer you.
I can see you can change the theme back on a new file by going to "Page-Layout" and then re-select the Theme you want there, if your old one is there (for me I wanted "Office 2013 - 2022"), and that is fine to fix for the new file, but not something I want to have to do every time, I want to change it so the default is the one I want, not just the latest theme that someone in the Microsoft team thought might be nice!
I am pretty unimpressed that changes like this just seem to happen and it seems the only place to try to get an answer is on a "community" page where someone may or may not answer you.
I can see you can change the theme back on a new file by going to "Page-Layout" and then re-select the Theme you want there, if your old one is there (for me I wanted "Office 2013 - 2022"), and that is fine to fix for the new file, but not something I want to have to do every time, I want to change it so the default is the one I want, not just the latest theme that someone in the Microsoft team thought might be nice!
I wonder why it was done and if someone asked for a change. Yes, there are worse things in anybody's life and I can cope with it, however I preferred it as it was before. I guess there is some old and huge design problem in excel they cannot fix.
FYI I'm using as a workaround a new personal template and when I create a new book I select my personal one rather than the new template.Thanks John for demonstrating we're not alone in the universe
