Style Font Color Changes After Close??

[the.ronin]

Hi everyone. New member here about to bash his head into his computer monitor lol.



I am using MS Office Word 2016 (not the cloud version) on Windows 10 on a 64-bit system. I am using the docx file format.

I created a style "Header 1" with custom font color (RGB) 7, 87, 91. While the document is open, the application of this style works just fine. If I close and then open the file, the color changes to something else lighter (please see attached screenshot). If I check the style, the color option is the correct color but what it shows is a lighter version of the color. I then need to apply a font color change to each individual instance of Header 1 to get back the color I need.

I have tried starting over with defining the styles, removing all removable unused styles but still get this same error when I re-open the file.

Any help would be so appreciated on this mind-numbing error.

[the.ronin]

Ok I just tried it with both a preset font color and a randomly selected random color. It worked fine for both - when I saved it, closed it, and reopened it, the same color remained in that style.

So of the umpteen million possible RGB color combinations, I happened to pick *the one* that Word 2016 does not like?? BAHAHA

[Guessed]

Is the style a character style or a paragraph style?
Is the template set to update styles on open?
If you select the paragraph and press Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Q, does it retain its preferred color?