custom color swatch add-in in Powerpoint ->2003

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Tommy Holm Hansen - 17 Jul 2007 10:14 GMT

The issue:
21 colors have beeen selected as the Corporate Design colors. These must be
implemented in Powerpoint 2003 such that the user can easily pick of them for
Fill, Line or Font, preferably from a color swatch.

I have searched quite extensively on this issue and quite a few people have
rasied the question before unfortunately all answers to the question is on
changing the color scheme in Powerpoint, however, this only gives you a very
limited number of colors to customise.

I believe this can only be solved through a custom toolbar add-in . I have
found code for making the toobar but I am clueless on how to make the color
swatch, any ideas?

Best regards,
Tommy

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Sandy - 17 Jul 2007 14:42 GMT

Mr. Hansen,

Do you have Primary, Seconary and Tertiary (more) colors? If so, one idea
would be to create several color schemes in PPT, deleting the default schemes
that come with the program.

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> The issue:
> 21 colors have beeen selected as the Corporate Design colors. These must be
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> Best regards,
> Tommy

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Tommy Holm Hansen - 18 Jul 2007 08:48 GMT

> Mr. Hansen,
>
> Do you have Primary, Seconary and Tertiary (more) colors? If so, one idea
> would be to create several color schemes in PPT, deleting the default schemes
> that come with the program.

No not really and I would really like to avoid color schemes in order to
give the users access to the full color palette from one place.

Best regards,
Tommy

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Steve Rindsberg - 17 Jul 2007 21:29 GMT

> 21 colors have beeen selected as the Corporate Design colors. These must be
> implemented in Powerpoint 2003 such that the user can easily pick of them for
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> found code for making the toobar but I am clueless on how to make the color
> swatch, any ideas?

It's not a small undertaking if you're not already accustomed to writing VB/VBA
or other code. If you are, or plan to learn, we'll be happy to help out here
with suggestions.

This and quite a few other problems you may run into when trying to get users to
stick to a corporate design can be solved via custom add-ins.

Addins like this have become something of a specialty of ours lately.
I'd be happy to talk over the possibilities with you if you'd like.
If so, email me at steve at-sign pptools dot come

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