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
    2018-04-25T14:53:11+00:00

    Hello!

    Thanks for posting on the Microsoft Community, and we're sorry that you're experiencing this issue. We have identified the source of this problem and our engineering team is working on a fix. I'll post back once the update containing the fix is released.

    Thanks,

    Michelle V

    Office Team

    Well, its been more than two years since your post (3/4/16 to 4/25/18 now) and the problem still hasn't been resolved.  I've been using 2016 for about 3 weeks now and every morning my theme resets from the "Dark Gray" I selected to "Colorful."

    I also agree strongly with another post that it was a poor choice to change all the icons to white in the "Dark Gray" and "Black" themes.  Please make the icon colors consistent throughout the themes, or make an option to select  white or normal colors.

    One other problem as long as we are on the subject.  In the "Black" theme, reminders come up with a light gray on white which is a strain on the eyes to read.  I love the black theme the best but can't use it due to this poor color combination.  Please fix.  Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-02T21:06:45+00:00

    i agree! But we sign in and out pretty frequently, and this is not just me but everyone in my office. we all have the same issue. if you close outlook, it reverts back to the default scheme

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-25T10:35:53+00:00

    It is 2017 and this is still an issue when is this going to be fixed it is extremely annoying

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-08-04T06:15:27+00:00

    I tried JimL5000 hint, it doesn't help for me. Still have the issue every morning when I start the computer.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-07-24T11:45:19+00:00

    I don't know about anyone else, but the "colorful" theme causes me a lot of eye strain. Perhaps a round of class action law suits for causing eye strain would get MS off their collective butts and get them to fix this.

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