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#Theme colors palette word 2016 windows windows 8

Ones downloaded from Microsoft) would use the old palette. Whether or not that happened, any existing documents or documents created from existing templates (possibly including If your new installation adopted an existing normal.dotm template, then everything opened from that template may be using the old palette. That would require either reformatting your hard drive or many hours of tedious work. I would be amazed if you completely removed any Word installation.

My word seems to be using only one template.Ĭompletely removed is different from uninstalled.

Despite selecting "Office" in the color scheme under Design tab, yet the color scheme although it reads as "Office", yet it is showing the 2010 colors.

Previously O2013 was installed but that was completely removed prior to installing the 2016 version. I don't have multiple versions of Word.Note, this is normally different from the default save location for custom templates.Ĭharles Kenyon, thank you for assisting me. To change the location of the User Templates folder to make it version specific. The solution to this is to use Options > Advanced > File Locations You will be if you have multiple versions of Word and they are sharing a normal template. You may be working in compatibility mode.

Like I showed above, even when opening the template, while choosing for colors, although the name reads as Office, yet it was showing outdated 2010 color scheme.įirst, the 2010 is not outdated, it is different. Yes, that's contrary to what you must do to open templates in other folders, where double clicking creates a new file based on the template and right clicking on the file name and then left clicking Open opens the template. Once done, I closed word after saving the normal.dotm template but the color scheme remains unchanged when I re-opened a normal doc.

Go under Design tab » Colors and set to.

Once the doc is opened, press space and backspace just to dirty the document.

Right-clicking Normal.dotm » Open with left-click.

See the screenshot of the directory īut you can fix the palette for all new files by modifying normal.dotm as I suggested in an earlier post.Ĭan you tell me how exactly? Because here's what I did (based from what I read in the previous posts): There seems to be no duplicate of normal.dotm as you are implying. I tried the solution but nothing seems to have changed. Moreover, the normal.dotm date corresponds to the date the O2016 was installed, not the O2013. I first installed O2013 but the color palette was 2010! Further before installing O2016, I'd had completely uninstall the 2013 version instead of upgrading.

#Theme colors palette word 2016 windows windows 8

Well this is a fresh installation of Windows 8 and there was no previous version of Office on it. If you want to keep both versions loaded, you'll have to live with that (and with all new W2016 documents being created in Word kept the normal.dotm from your W2010/2013 version instead of replacing it with a W2016 version.