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
    2017-01-24T13:34:45+00:00

    This problem has reappeared a week or two ago with a recent Office update...  Apparently it has now been UN-fixed!

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-01-06T13:24:47+00:00

    It is definitely not fixed yet.  MS keeps pushing out updates and this issue remains unresolved.  Just another glitch in an MS product that they stay silent about and figure the masses will just get used to it since they have no choice.  Who needs customer service when you own the market.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-01-06T02:04:21+00:00

    I have version 16.0.6925.1048 64 bit and I have the problem of the office them changing on the office suites all the time.  This is the latest update so it appears that the problem of the office theme changing  to color has not been fixed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-11-10T20:16:18+00:00

    Hello everyone,

    We have released a fix for this feature in the latest update of Office 2016, version 16.0.6868.2067 or later. To get the latest updates, click File > Account > Update Options > Update Now.

    Please let us know if you're still experiencing this issue after updating.

    Thanks,

    Michelle V.

    Office Team

    I also have this problem.

    My install includes updates through 16.0.7369..2038 so I assume that has included version 16.0.6868.2067 (no clue how to check).

    FYI, when I click on Update Options > View Updates (which says "See the update history for this product") it takes me to this webpage https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-and-improved-in-Office-2016-for-Office-365-95c8d81d-08ba-42c1-914f-bca4603e1426?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US  wchih is useless.

    As others have indicated this is a real PITA.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-06-09T12:24:09+00:00

    OK, but I still don't have answer for my question:

    Is there any other way (than Account->Update) to download and apply the fix?

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