How to deploy custom Office 2007 themes to multiple users

Question

Folks,

As part of our customization to MS Office 2007, we developed a number of custom theme files (.thmx).

The only way we now to deploy the custom theme is to copy them into %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes, for each user to allow the user to see the theme under his theme gallery drop down.

This is a not a problem for a few users but will be a problem for large deployment and when multiple users are using the same machine.

Please advice if there is a way to deploy themes to a large number of users.

Answer 1

It turns out that what I was asking about was as simple as copy the theme file to the following path :

%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Document Themes 12\

Answer 2

If you type "echo %APPDATA% in console you'll see that it is dependent on current logged on user so it shouldn't be a problem

next user will have a different username and a different appdata path