Colors for Text and Cell Background

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David - 16 Jul 2007 20:17 GMT

I an running Excel 2007 (part of Office 2007) on my Win/XP
Workstation.

For both cell background and text colors, the new menu system has
"Theme Colors" and "Standard Colors". I know I can also choose "More
Colors" to get virtually anything I want. However, there are some
colors that I really like and use a lot. I would like to change the
Standard Color offerings from what Microsoft has chosen to something
more to my liking.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible? If it is, would you please
let me know how to do it?

Thanks, David

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shah shailesh - 17 Jul 2007 03:04 GMT

To apply a color other than the available theme colors and standard colors,
click More Colors, and then define the color that you want to use on the
Standard tab or Recent\Custom Colors tab of the Colors dialog box.

Home>Font>Fill Color>More Colors..

Regards,
Shailesh Shah
http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/
(Excel Add-ins Page)
If You Can't Excel with Talent, Triumph with Effort.

>I an running Excel 2007 (part of Office 2007) on my Win/XP
> Workstation.
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> Thanks, David

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shah shailesh - 17 Jul 2007 03:42 GMT

>To apply a color other than the available theme colors and standard colors,
>click More Colors, and then define the color that you want to use on the
>Standard tab or Recent\Custom Colors tab of the Colors dialog box.

That is what the Excel help said but don't know how to appear in the
standard tab. BTW the Custom colors do appear in the Recent Tab.

Regards,
Shailesh Shah
http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/
(Excel Add-ins Page)
If You Can't Excel with Talent, Triumph with Effort.

> To apply a color other than the available theme colors and standard
> colors, click More Colors, and then define the color that you want to use
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>> Thanks, David

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MartinW - 17 Jul 2007 05:45 GMT

Hi David,

I don't know about 2007 but in earlier versions you can change
the standard color palette by going to Tools>Options>Color tab,
click on a color swatch then click the Modify button and change
it to whatever you like. The changes will then apply to all
color palettes.

Hopefully they have kept that funcionality in 2007 although
the way to access it may have changed.

HTH
Martin

>I an running Excel 2007 (part of Office 2007) on my Win/XP
> Workstation.
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> Thanks, David

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