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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
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This is a ridiculous situation! The first post in this thread is 2015 and MS still haven't got this BUG fixed. Ripe situation for a third party color theme management utility but why should Office users have to pay for relief from such an obvious coding problem?
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.
This happens in Windows 10 as well. Change color. Close app, open it and it's back to colorful. This is more than annoying.
Has this issue from 2016 with colours keep reverting back to original been resolved?
I'm using Outlook 2016 and this is getting very irritating having to keep changing it back every single time I open Outlook.
In our environment, we are using Office 2016 Pro Plus MSI. There is a fix me option available however we are not on Office 365 therefore we cant sign on to the cloud. I currently have a user experiencing the same issue. Her Office theme color reverts back to colorful as soon as the same or another Office app is opened. She is on Office 2016 vs 16.0.4266.1001 and her OS is Windows 7 Enterprise vs 6.1.7601. Has MS released a patch to correct this weird issue? It is not happening on most of our machines.