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
    2018-03-08T20:49:19+00:00

    Thank you! This pointed me in the right direction.  On the Office Account page there was an error occurring so that my settings were not being saved.  The error message was right at the top.  I had to log into office 365 for the setting to be saved.  BTW, I was able to set the same setting in the Office page of Excel as well.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-21T16:30:39+00:00

    Well, it has been a year since your post and I still have the problem!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-15T02:14:40+00:00

    I use Office 2016 via Office 365 w/full downloaded product.  Outlook, Word, and Excel all set to "White" - and all revert somewhat randomly to "Colorful" - doesn't matter if I sign out, sign in, etc. etc. --- using Windows 7 Pro SP1.

    This is exactly the kind of bug that makes Microsoft look incompetent - after working there for 18 years, I feel embarrassed that this user-frustration bug is still not fixed after more than 1 year.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-14T17:30:07+00:00

    This Continues to happen to me as well on Windows 10.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-04-03T18:59:39+00:00

    Hi Peter,

    To change your Office theme, please open an Office app and go to File > Account > Office Theme. That will write the correct registry keys in your local registry and in your roaming profile. Manually changing the "UI Theme" registry key isn't supported (e.g., the value saved in your Office roaming profile takes precedence)

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