Color Scheme Strikes Again!

[Cory]

I am working with a presentation that has Slide master shapes that are
intended to have red text along with a table with (imported through code from
Access) hyperlinks. Now, they hyperlinks are colored red (because for
whatever reason, Microsoft decided it would be a smoking hot idea to combine
the Accent and Hyperlink color values into one unwieldy selection) which
makes them look a little odd.

Additionally at the top of the table (also created by code) that the
hyperlinks are in, I have a merged cell that I want red. When I set the
background color on it via

ActivePresentation.Slides(3).Shapes("ProdTable").(Some objects/properties
omitted).BackColor.RGB = RGB(Red:=255, _
Green:= 0, _
Blue:=0)

it leaves the cell blue because that is the color set for Fill effects
(which in turn colorfills the charts that are dispersed throughout the rest
of the presentation).

What I want to do:

1. Force the Hyperlinks to be blue while still having the Head/Footer text
stay red. 2. Force the top cell of the table to have a red background.

I miss Publisher. When you tell it to do something, it damn well does it.
None of this color scheme stuff. Anyone have a way to either ignore the
color scheme altogether or just force shapes to be a specified color despite
the scheme?

Cory

 

[Cory]

Yeah I tried that. Instead of turning it Red, it turned it purple instead.
:-/ The color scheme wants it to be blue, I set the BackColor to red and it
stays blue, I set the ForeColor to red and it makes it purple. I think it is
playing with me. The only thing that keeps me from hurting the machine is
that the company would make me buy it... and I would likely have to take the
workplace violence training more than semi-annually.

I managed to make a scheme that would do after writing the first post. It
had not dawned on me that the first row of colors in the pallets represented
the Scheme colors. Once I found that out, I was able to change some shapes
color scheme assignments to suit it better.

Thanks for the help. More to follow probably. Powerpoint does not seem to
have a very straightforward implementation of VBA. The recorder only records
about half of the things you do.

Cory