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hedge15 - 11 Apr 2008 04:18 GMT

I have been playing with the colors for two days and I am no closer to where
I need to be. Thank you for any help/advise.

I downloaded the template at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC101671231033.aspx?CategoryID=CT101
450711033
but I need to change the colors to match our corporate colors. There are 3
triangles on the bottom I need to change but all I have is the 6 character
html color code. How can I change each triange individually without using
the color themes? Thanks a lot in advance.

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Echo S - 11 Apr 2008 12:57 GMT

For the record, the template is "concourse," and it's available in
PowerPoint 2007 already.

You may be better off changing the appropriate color in the theme (accent 1)
to your corporate color to change the blue textured gradient and the small
light blue triangle, as they are set to change when the color scheme
changes. Or use a different color in the color scheme and map those images
to use that one.

Generally speaking, though, go to the slide master, select the object, and
then on Drawing Tools Format tab, click the dialog launcher (small square at
the lower right corner of the group). Choose a fill color or image or
texture or whatever.

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>I have been playing with the colors for two days and I am no closer to
>where
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> html color code. How can I change each triange individually without using
> the color themes? Thanks a lot in advance.

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hedge15 - 11 Apr 2008 14:41 GMT

Thanks echo. How can I duplicate my corporate colors exactly is I dont have
the red/blue/green percentages but all I have is the html 6 digit color
codes? Is there a way I can find the breakdown for these codes into PPT's
neded input percentages/ Thank you.

> For the record, the template is "concourse," and it's available in
> PowerPoint 2007 already.
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> > html color code. How can I change each triange individually without using
> > the color themes? Thanks a lot in advance.

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linux_loco - 11 Apr 2008 19:40 GMT

This helped me out, free trial should give you the info you need:

http://www.newfreedownloads.com/Web-Authoring/HTML-Converters/Fast-Color-Codes.html

Good Luck!

> Thanks echo. How can I duplicate my corporate colors exactly is I dont have
> the red/blue/green percentages but all I have is the html 6 digit color
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> > > html color code. How can I change each triange individually without using
> > > the color themes? Thanks a lot in advance.

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Steve Rindsberg - 11 Apr 2008 21:04 GMT

> Thanks echo. How can I duplicate my corporate colors exactly is I dont have
> the red/blue/green percentages but all I have is the html 6 digit color
> codes? Is there a way I can find the breakdown for these codes into PPT's
> neded input percentages/ Thank you.

The numbers in PPT aren't percentages, they're on a scale from 0 to 255.

Your HTML codes are the same, but they're in hexadecimal, so for example:

#80FF00 breaks down to

80 red (or 128 decimal)
FF green (or 255 decimal)
00 blue (0 decimal)

so the equivalent color in PowerPoint would be

128 red
255 green
0 blue

There are several sites that have handy calculators for this. Here's one:

http://www.javascripter.net/faq/hextorgb.htm

You can also use the Windows calculator to do hex to decimal and similar conversions. Choose
View, Scientific view in order to see the necessary bits.

> > For the record, the template is "concourse," and it's available in
> > PowerPoint 2007 already.
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> > > html color code. How can I change each triange individually without using
> > > the color themes? Thanks a lot in advance.

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Echo S - 12 Apr 2008 15:41 GMT

Cool. Between that and the link posted by linux_loco, I also have new tools
in my arsenal!

I use a screen color picker called Pixie (http://www.nattyware.com ) to pick
colors on my screen, but I didn't know about just converting from hex to
RGB. Very cool.

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