Add custom colours to Word/Powerpoint 2003 color palette

[transformer]

I'm trying to find an easy way for users to choose and apply the
company's corporate colours to fonts/fill colour in Word/PowerPoint
2003 without having to open the color palette/custom and entering the
RGB values. I know I can modify the default colours in Excel, but can
colours be added to the palette in Word/PP or is there another way to
do this (VBA maybe)? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[lynn.taylor]

You can do it in Powerpoint by opeing the StandardPowerpoint.pot used
by the company, click on format, slide design, choose Colour Schemes.
Pick one of the Schemes and click on the Edit link at the bottom of the
task pane. Set up all the colours as per your corporate colours for
fill, text, shadow etc and click on Add as standard scheme.

You can delete all the other schemes as well so you end up with just
your corporate one.

In word you could write VBA to do it and then add buttons to the
toolbar to run the code. If you wanted the toolbar to accessed by
everyone you could creat a template with the toolbar in it and save it
in the word start up folder which will display the toolbar when word is
run. It's a bit complex though because you would have to write
different code for font colour, shading colour of tables and text
boxes, highlight colour for words/paragraphs. You could create
separate macros for each one of the above. With tables, if you already
use a corporate template you could change some of the table styles to
use your corporate colours. You could not change the styles though in
the template you added your toolbar to, because this will be run as an
add-in and you cannot access styles from an add-in.

Hope the above is useful.
regards
Lynn

Hope this is useful.