The most recent version of Word has changed the entire color palette to eliminate the color yellow. This affects the whole spectrum available for fonts, highlights, etc.

One outcome is that the yellow option in Highlights is now gone. (All the other highlight colors are too dark to work as highlights, except pale gray.)

Since yellow is by far the most popular highlight color in the world, to the point that "yellow highlights" is practically the generic term for highlights, this revision of the color palette is baffling as well as frustrating. In Word, you can use the "Shading" function in the Paragraph section (under Home) to create a workable highlight, but you can no longer get yellow. In PowerPoint, you can't highlight at all because that Paragraph function in Word doesn't appear in PowerPoint and, again, all the other highlights are too dark to use.

I've searched for a way to edit the highlight colors but it seems impossible. Has anyone else confronted this problem? Any workaround to get yellow? Any explanation from Office why this bizarre change to the palette has been made?