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
    2017-02-04T17:17:24+00:00

    Hello Hugo

    Your request "Could you provide more details or screenshots for how to get Word into the wrong theme?"

    That is the million dollar questions.  I (we) have no idea how to get Word into the wrong theme.  It does it all by AI self.  The question at hand is how to STOP MS products (for me it is Outlook, Word, Excel, Publisher) from changing theme without a human saying to do so.

    The issue I have is, I want all my programs/apps to use White as the them color but the software keeps changing the theme to Colorful.  This happens without a pattern, not all the time, but enough of the time to be annoying.  It may or may not be related to only opening files from my O365 SharePoint Sites.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-02-03T22:30:42+00:00

    Hi Elizabeth,

    Sorry your Office theme is changing unexpectedly. I tried the steps you mentioned but cannot reproduce the problem. Could you provide more details or screenshots for how to get Word into the wrong theme?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-01-28T17:55:24+00:00

    I have version 16.0.6925.1049 which has this problem.  I don't remember exactly when I started having this problem but it is only with Win 10.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-01-27T18:43:17+00:00

    I have Office Version 16.0.6741.2056

    I have the Office Theme set to White in my options.

    Most of the time when I open a document, Word opens up correctly with the White theme. However, if I open a document from one of our internal SharePoint sites when I don't have any other documents open, then it opens using the Colorful theme.

    If I close that document then open another document, the new document comes up with the White theme. If I then open the document from SharePoint it will open up with the White theme.

    Excel doesn't seem to have the same behavior...

    I can probably live with it now that I know the rules but this is aggravating and highly annoying.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-01-25T21:12:11+00:00

    ditto< I have version 16.0.6925.1049

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