Office 2016 keeps reverting color theme back to Colorful

Anonymous
2015-10-05T15:13:00+00:00

I installed Office 2016 as an upgrade to 2013.  Put the color scheme on grey (because annoyingly the awesome Black went away sometime in the preview.)  

Now I have a weird issue where every time I close all of the 2016 applications and then reopen one of the applications, the theme has changed from grey to colorful.  This applies to reboots or just closing them all and then later opening one back up.  Oddly as well today (10/5/2015) I walked away from the computer to talk to a co-worker in the next office.  When I came back, it was on colorful again.  However that is the only time it has changed itself while open.

It seems to work correctly when it is set to Grey.  So for instance, say I open Outlook and change the theme to Grey.  When I open Word or Excel, they are also Grey as they should be.

So I'm just throwing that out there as a potential bug

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-06-08T08:49:14+00:00

    I have 2016 Pro Plus and I have the option. Are you sure you have 2016?

    Give us a screen capture of the File menu > Account command pane.

    Yes, I'm sure. I'm IT technician in our domain.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-08T06:48:30+00:00

    I have 2016 Pro Plus and I have the option. Are you sure you have 2016?

    Give us a screen capture of the File menu > Account command pane.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-06-07T19:48:44+00:00

    I don't have these options: Update Options > Update Now :(

    Is there any other way to try the fix?

    Any answer? Somebody?

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-26T20:22:11+00:00

    I don't have these options: Update Options > Update Now :(

    Is there any other way to try the fix?

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-05-15T13:23:22+00:00

    Maybe this portal should be called "noanswers.microsoft.com"? :)

    Unfair shot ...

    Sorry you have not got an answer, but we are working in the dark too. Most of us are NOT MS employees, we do NOT have special access. (And the relatively few MS employees participating are very low level, also without special access to the development teams.) All we can do is provide replies based on our experience, both actual personal experience and knowledge collected from other (ie via replies on this forum).

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