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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / November 2005Colors different when move Excel to Powerpoint?
Using the latest version of Microsoft office tools. I cut and copy a chart from Excel and paste it into a Powerpoint presentation. But the background color of my cells which are a light pale yellow in Excel become a very bright yellow in Powerpoint. The colors are not even close, can this be controlled. > Using the latest version of Microsoft office tools. I cut and copy a chart > from Excel and paste it into a Powerpoint presentation. But the background > color of my cells which are a light pale yellow in Excel become a very > bright yellow in Powerpoint. The colors are not even close, can this be > controlled. I ran into something vaguely similar just today. Tell me, if you ungroup the pasted Excel content, do the colors change back to what they should look like? And does this happen with all colors or just some? ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Ungrouping had no effect. Dark Red/Brown color I have in my spreadsheet converts to Powerpoint accurately. The light yellow/beige converts to a very bright yellow though. >> Using the latest version of Microsoft office tools. I cut and copy a >> chart [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ Select the object, and on your Picture Toolbar, click "recolor picture." Choose to recolor to entire color scheme. See http://www.echosvoice.com/charts.htm and also http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com > Ungrouping had no effect. Dark Red/Brown color I have in my spreadsheet > converts to Powerpoint accurately. The light yellow/beige converts to a [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ > Ungrouping had no effect. Dark Red/Brown color I have in my spreadsheet > converts to Powerpoint accurately. The light yellow/beige converts to a > very bright yellow though. Do you happen to recall the RGB value for the yellow/beige color? I'd like to see if the same thing happens here. Also, what version of PPT/Excel do you have? > >> Using the latest version of Microsoft office tools. I cut and copy a > >> chart [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Using the latest release of Excel 2003. Select Format/AutoFormat then select "Colorful 2". If you import that yellow color into Powerpoint I ended up with a bright Yellow. I just adjusted my Excel file to a more faint yellow and it did get better. Still interesting that I saw such a discrepancy though with that yellow. >> Ungrouping had no effect. Dark Red/Brown color I have in my spreadsheet >> converts to Powerpoint accurately. The light yellow/beige converts to a [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ It probably has to do with the slide color scheme. The light yellow is being replaced with the appropriate color from the PPT color scheme -- in this case, it is by coincidence also yellow, albeit a brighter yellow. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com > Using the latest release of Excel 2003. Select Format/AutoFormat then > select "Colorful 2". If you import that yellow color into Powerpoint I [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ > It probably has to do with the slide color scheme. The light yellow is being > replaced with the appropriate color from the PPT color scheme -- in this > case, it is by coincidence also yellow, albeit a brighter yellow. A good theory but no .... that's not what I'm seeing here. There's no yellow in the scheme, and if I apply different schemes, it doesn't affect the pasted excel data, whether one of the autoformatted ones or a normal one. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > > It probably has to do with the slide color scheme. The light yellow is being > > replaced with the appropriate color from the PPT color scheme -- in this [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > in the scheme, and if I apply different schemes, it doesn't affect the pasted > excel data, whether one of the autoformatted ones or a normal one. Cool. Thanks for clarifying, because from here, it sure seemed like that's what was happening! SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com > Using the latest release of Excel 2003. Select Format/AutoFormat then > select "Colorful 2". If you import that yellow color into Powerpoint I > ended up with a bright Yellow. I just adjusted my Excel file to a more > faint yellow and it did get better. Still interesting that I saw such a > discrepancy though with that yellow. I'd call this a bug, probably in the AutoFormatting or the way PPT deals with it. I played with this a bit and found that if I formatted rows/columns myself rather than letting AF do it, everything seemed to paste or paste/link as expected into PPT. Autoformatted stuff pasted with the oddly bright yellow you're seeing, and if I paste/link, I get a strange, spotty gray instead. Note to self: Customize AutoFormat OFF the menu in Excel. Some of the formats seem ok, some are utterly intractible. Thanks for the detailed report, Al. > >> Ungrouping had no effect. Dark Red/Brown color I have in my spreadsheet > >> converts to Powerpoint accurately. The light yellow/beige converts to a [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Steve, I was able to change the color in the Excel file to get what I wanted in Powerpoint. I guess it is not a one to one translation though always. >> Using the latest version of Microsoft office tools. I cut and copy a >> chart [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ |
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