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
    2018-01-02T20:16:19+00:00

    Hi,

    I use Office signed out.

    The issue still exists - even when I set my Office to "Dark Grey" it switches back to "Colorful". So it would be nice, after over 1 year, that this issue is fixed.

    I use Windows 10 as OS.

    Regards,

    Georg

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-02-02T18:17:15+00:00

    For what it's worth, what worked for me here at work was that I signed out of my Office account completely (and remained signed out) then changed the Office Theme.

    In any Office application, go to File - Account (or Office Account). Once signed out, I changed the Office Theme to what I wanted the theme to be, Dark Gray. I have not had any issues in it changing back since. 

    What I figure must have been going on was that I was signed in to my Office Account on two different computers. Once I opened an Office application at home, the setting from there was captured in my account and the next time at work opening an Office application it would apply that different theme. Thus if I had Colorful theme set at home and was signed in, then came to work, it would remember that last setting and apply Colorful here at work.

    Hope this helps someone else...

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-24T14:47:56+00:00

    Michelle, please provide an ETA on the fix for this issue.

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-06T12:52:11+00:00

    Has the fix for this issue been released yet?  I am experiencing the issue where I set the color theme to dark grey and it reverts back to colorful on restart.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-27T20:48:41+00:00

    Thank you Rohn007. I wondered if all the components needed to follow the same color scheme. Now I know.

    But we are both experiencing "spontaneous" color switching over the past couple days. We've both gotten very speedy at changing it back when it happens, but it's still annoying. :(

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