Colors different when move Excel to Powerpoint?

[Al Franz]

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.

 

[Al Franz]

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.

 

[Al Franz]

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.

 

[Echo S]

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

 

[Al Franz]

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.

 

[Echo S]

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.

 

[Echo S]

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.

Cool. Thanks for clarifying, because from here, it sure seemed like that's
what was happening!