Shipped themes, header footers and body layouts

Microsoft aims to ship themes (calm, default, playful, standard), about eight header footer layouts and around 50 body layouts. Header footers are split into external reports with logo and minimal internal ones, and samples are available for your own report objects.

Area: Reporting and analytics. Status: announced. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video.

Status evidence

6:17 in "Introducing: Composite Document Layouts": "we aim to ship in version 20.9 and 20.1 and send 20.9.1"

Where they talk about it

Introducing: Composite Document Layouts: 6:17 to 7:31

Quotes

6:17 "we aim to ship in version 20.9 and 20.1 and send 20.9.1" - Gives the targeted shipping versions, though the captions may have garbled them.
6:31 "three themes, approximately eight um header footer layouts, and give or take 50 different body layouts across different functional areas." - Gives the approximate amount of shipped content.

Caveats mentioned

Version numbers are as heard and may be mangled by the captions.
The numbers are approximate (give or take).
The shipped set is mainly meant for trying it out at the start.

Documented features match

Design header/footer layouts for document reports with the updated Word add-in - low confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573331. Doc mentions internal/external header/footer samples
Product documentation (partial, the article describes the broader feature or mentions this in passing): Set up reusable themes and header and footer layouts, checked 2026-10-02. Themes and header and footer layouts can come from an installed extension or be uploaded by an administrator. Note: Only the mechanism for extension-provided parts is documented; no shipped theme names (calm, default, playful, standard) or counts.

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale.

Tags: reporting, layouts, themes, samples

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.