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
    2017-08-02T13:39:02+00:00

    In Office 365 (2016) the problem seems to be resolved by following some advice given by someone else in this thread, that I lost track of, which is:

    in Options - General - Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office

    check the box for "Always use these values regardless of sign in to Office

    So far this has worked and maintains the Dark Gray theme which I prefer across the Office applications suite.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-08-04T06:15:27+00:00

    I tried JimL5000 hint, it doesn't help for me. Still have the issue every morning when I start the computer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-20T18:42:58+00:00

    I also continue to have this issue even though I check 

    "Always use these values regardless of sign in to Office."

    Part of the value of 365 is supposed to be that issues are fixed and updated quickly.  This has been going on a long time now.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-08-24T05:33:19+00:00

    No, it does not work. 

    Perhaps this info would help to shed some light:  I installed Office 2016 Pro Plus both on my Windows 7 desktop and on my Windows 10 laptop.  Office on my desktop has no colors.  Yet the installation on the laptop (Windows 10) is OK, with colors and all.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-08-24T09:17:45+00:00

    Well its 2017 and its still rubbish "our engineers with publish a fix" yeah

    Office 2016 Office 365, & windows 10, ALL are suffering massive massive bugs

    All the options Freeze, hang, crash, change all the setting on their own, emails dissapear as i am reading them

    Oh i despair

    Its got to the point the large international companies we sell to office 365. office 2016, cause constant issues

    One of my laptops at home is on XP with office 2007, i have to use that for business at time to actually do any work

    Our external IT, Server etc service tech, regualary comment on how a complet mess microsoft products have become

    Bring back XP & office 2007, it worked yuo know!!!

    ps while typing this outlook has just changed to white on white, so i cant see anything 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 AARRGGHHHH

    One totally frustrated and annoyed microsoft user bring on the penguin!

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