Please please read, probably a very simple solution but i need hel

[danbaum]

The colours our company use are not ones available using the basic colour
palette provided by windows. We can, however, create these colours by
modifying the palette but are unable to save them so that they are always
available. Is there any way of saving thes modified colours so they are
always available?

 

[Beth Melton]

Is there a specific application are you using? Depending on the
application there are various methods you can use to workaround the
inability to preserve a custom color in the color palette.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[danbaum]

thanks for your reply. we are using the colours in word, excel, powerpoint
and some other major programs, pretty much everything in office.

 

[Echo S]

You know, each of the Office applications seems to handle color -- well,
choosing color, anyway -- a little differently than the other apps do.

With PowerPoint, for example, the color scheme is available to a specific
template. You could create a color scheme based on the colors you want and
make it available to the blank.POT file in PPT so that all new presentations
would at least have it available. Here's some info on PPT and color schemes.
http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm And here's a third-party Palette
add-in for PPT that might be of interest to you.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/FAQ00015.htm

I'm not sure what would work best in Word, though. Maybe styles?

For Excel, I think you could do Tools/Options/Color and use Modify, then
save that as your default workbook template (book.xlt) in the XLStart
folder.

 

[Beth Melton]

Yep, using Styles is what works best in Word.

Also, for Excel, if you insert new sheets in your workbooks then you
also need to save a workbook as Template name it "Sheet.xlt", and save
it in the XLStart folder as well. Note if you only want to insert one
sheet then "Sheet.xlt" needs to be saved with a single worksheet.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

I'm not sure what would work best in Word, though. Maybe styles?

For Excel, I think you could do Tools/Options/Color and use Modify,
then
save that as your default workbook template (book.xlt) in the
XLStart
folder.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

thanks for your reply. we are using the colours in word, excel,
powerpoint
and some other major programs, pretty much everything in office.