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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
Processes in Microsoft 365 for setting up Office apps, redeeming product keys, and activating licenses.
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Will there ever be a solution to this problem which does not require having an Office 365 account?
Likewise, this solved the problem for me as well, thank you.
I was having the issue and I found that when I opened up Outlook and clicked on File ---> Office Account (using Windows 10, Office 365 account), I noticed that it said there was a problem with my Office account on my PC and it had a "Fix It" button. Once I clicked that and logged in with my company credentials, my Office account was fixed and once I set my colors back to black, it has held my colors ever since. Now when I open up Outlook or Word, I no longer have to go back into the Options and change my colors. I know that changing the colors every time you log in is a pain in the you know what so try this and see if that fixes your issue.
That solved it. Thank you!
I will try that and see. Thank you
I was having the issue and I found that when I opened up Outlook and clicked on File ---> Office Account (using Windows 10, Office 365 account), I noticed that it said there was a problem with my Office account on my PC and it had a "Fix It" button. Once I clicked that and logged in with my company credentials, my Office account was fixed and once I set my colors back to black, it has held my colors ever since. Now when I open up Outlook or Word, I no longer have to go back into the Options and change my colors. I know that changing the colors every time you log in is a pain in the you know what so try this and see if that fixes your issue.
Office 2016 client and Office 365, which is online, should have nothing to do with each other. I own Office 2016 but not a 365 account. I cannot select the dark theme as an option. I use dark grey. It seems the Dark theme is only available to those who have a 365 account, which makes no sense to me.
However, I am glad that at least a solution is available a select group of us.