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
    2017-01-24T19:38:19+00:00

    Important: If Update Options is missing under Product Information, and the About button is the only option available, you either have a volume license install of Office 2016, or your company is using Group Policy to manage Office updates. Try Microsoft Update to get the latest Office 2016 updates or contact your company help desk.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-01-24T15:04:58+00:00

    It reappeared for me on some of my machines.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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