Office 2016 keeps reverting color theme back to Colorful

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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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Anonymous

2017-05-29T21:35:36+00:00

I am having this issue with a computer at home running Windows 10 and office 365. Every time I open Outlook it is colorful theme but I set it as dark grey. It just keeps switching back to colorful.

At my office, I do not experience this at all so very odd and very annoying. AT the office also Windows 10 and office 365?????
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Anonymous

2017-05-26T14:06:42+00:00

Open word, theme colorful. Change it to black....create my document....close word....open it again (without opening any other office app) and theme back to colorful. I open Outlook in the morning and leave it open all day. I change the theme to black. Open Word,,,theme is colorful....open Excel,,,,theme is colorful. So the setting that is supposed to affect ALL Office apps randomly decides when it wants to change and in what app it wants to change. Today, set Outlook to black. Open word it was coloful, changed to black. Same with Excel. Now when I open them they are staying black,,,,,oops,,,,spoke too soon. Just opened word and it's back to colorful. Went into Office365 on the web portal and checked that my theme color was set to black there. Now it seems to be staying on the Office apps on my workstation.
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Anonymous

2017-05-26T13:59:45+00:00

I have the same problem with Office 2016 on Windows 10. Got new workstation in January and it was FINE. Then about 2 weeks ago an update was installed and now it keeps going back to colorful. I have it on black because it causes less eye strain. Oh well....guess I'll just sue Microsoft when the eye strain starts affecting my health...stupid idiots. Close the holes in your software....don't take away functionality.
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Anonymous

2017-05-01T22:51:31+00:00

Yes. In the last week or so I've found that my chosen option of Black for the Office themes will change back to colorful most (but not all) days when I start my PC after a nightly shutdown.

I use Outlook 2016 predominantly, however some days I use Excel and a few other programs from the Office suite.

I'm no fan of the ribbon, nor some of the other layout features of Office. The limited color schemes on offer are all problematic in either minor or major ways when used in conjunction with the current interface design. In the past we had a lot more options for customisation, and it allowed the more picky of us to find our preferred setup. Obviously not everyone has the same viewpoint, but to have the system keep coming back to the 'colorful' scheme just keeps highlighting the removal of a previously handy feature.
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Anonymous

2017-04-17T21:26:14+00:00

Hard to roll this out enterprise wide with a year old bug.
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