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
    2016-04-27T20:39:07+00:00

    Kelly, I don't know about your problem, but your friend has to pick one or the other Office "color scheme". When you set the color scheme (File menu > Options command) in one Office application it applies to ALL office applications.  So when she switches in one, it applies to the others.  Very frustrating if you are not aware how this feature is designed to work.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-26T20:40:56+00:00

    My Outlook keeps switching to gray on its own. (I want it to be white.) My colleague wants her Outlook to be gray and her Word and PowerPoint to be white. They keep switching on their own. It's annoying to say the least.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-04-15T11:08:23+00:00

    Michelle,

    Is there any chance you have an ETA on the fix?

    -Brandon

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-04T21:58:09+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

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-02-16T14:19:24+00:00

    I want mine to stay white, also, because in white the icon colors show.  I wouldn't mind so much if the other themes allowed the icon colors to be visible.

    What's up with that?  Microsoft, don't you get that icons are supposed to provide visual information?

    Scott

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