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
    2017-01-25T19:42:30+00:00
    • Was this working fine before you get updated to your current version?

    Chee

    Thanks to the sneak update / auto update by MS feature how are we supposed to identify when a new update was applied and how that relates to the perceived bug. 

    Even if we find the date, it is hard to relate a date in the past to the install of an "update" to the appearance of a problem.  This is precisely why I vehemently object to the CTR "automagic" update push process.  MS pushes out changes and then we have to react to problems / changes / "improvements" they introduce with no advance warning or even documentation.  It makes trouble shooting so much more difficult!

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-01-25T13:51:48+00:00

    Same here.  Always have the most current updates (as that is how I set up the computer) and this is a continued problem.  As has been pointed out in the past the full color option is silly since it makes the icons in the Quick Access Toolbar almost invisible (not sure what the designers were thinking).  In any event, would be nice if MS actually gave a hoot and fixed valid shortcomings rather than coming out with memory clogging crap like Cortina.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-05-26T18:22:23+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

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-15T00:04:32+00:00

    I am continuing to have this issue.  Any update to a permanent  fix?

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-27T22:51:57+00:00

    Thanks Kelly for the version number and for the detailed information. We've reached out to our engineering team to help investigated. If you see this occurring again, can you report back and provide details of the series of events for when this occurred?

    Also, can you provide which Windows version you have?

    Michelle V.

    Office Team

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