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
    2016-05-26T20:22:11+00:00

    I don't have these options: Update Options > Update Now :(

    Is there any other way to try the fix?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-07T19:48:44+00:00

    I don't have these options: Update Options > Update Now :(

    Is there any other way to try the fix?

    Any answer? Somebody?

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-06-08T06:48:30+00:00

    I have 2016 Pro Plus and I have the option. Are you sure you have 2016?

    Give us a screen capture of the File menu > Account command pane.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-06-08T08:49:14+00:00

    I have 2016 Pro Plus and I have the option. Are you sure you have 2016?

    Give us a screen capture of the File menu > Account command pane.

    Yes, I'm sure. I'm IT technician in our domain.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-06-08T09:08:26+00:00

    OK, cool, I was wrong.

    I hate it when MS HIDES rather than simply disables temporarily inaccessible features.

    I wonder if the problem is associated with your account error indicated at the top of the dialog.  Try logging out from Office and see if that helps. 

    It is a pita that they associate the the version number display along with the Update Options button.  The hidden update button suggests to me that your environment is setup to handle Windows and Office updates through something like WUSUS (or what ever that corporate local Update process is called) rather than under the control of individual userids and computers.   So I would guess that the option to hide the update is controlled by GPEDIT. Sorry, I have no idea what specific setting to work with.  It may also be handled at a corporate level through the Office 365 Admin portal (I don't know if the portal works with Office 2016 Pro Plus).

    Try asking this question, with pictures (or link back here) on the business version of this forum:

    Office 365 Business Forum

    https://community.office365.com/en-us/ - Home page

    https://community.office365.com/en-us/f - Forums list

    Also try logging in to a Windows session with an Admin class windows user ID (in other words, I assume/hope that you normally work in a user class Windows ID.

    Here is what my screen looks like:

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