Adding custom colors to the palette in Word 2003?

[Eric G]

Windows XPP SP2

Word 2003 SP2





Hello,



Is it somehow possible to add custom colors to the palette in Word?

To apply custom colors is no problem, but I'm looking for a way of adding it to the pallet.



Best regards,





Eric G

Stockholm, Sweden

 

[Jay Freedman]

Windows XPP SP2
Word 2003 SP2

Hello,

Is it somehow possible to add custom colors to the palette in Word?
To apply custom colors is no problem, but I'm looking for a way of adding it to the pallet.

Best regards,
Eric G
Stockholm, Sweden

Hi Eric,

You can't add the colors directly to the palette. What you can do
instead is to define a new character style or paragraph style that
contains the custom color, and apply that style where you want to use
the color.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Eric,

Are you referring to coloring text, or fill colors for shapes, or ???

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Windows XPP SP2
Word 2003 SP2


Hello,

Is it somehow possible to add custom colors to the palette in Word?

To apply custom colors is no problem, but I'm looking for a way of adding it to the pallet.

Best regards,


Eric G <<

 

[Eric G]

Hi Jay,

Yes, I'm already using this technique for colored headings and similar
items, but it would be rather nifty to be able to have our 3 corporate
colors predefined in the palette, as we often use these colors in, if I may
call it that, themes (without actually using or applying themes as defined
in a Word context).

Thanks very much for your reply.

Best regards,


Eric G
Stockholm, Sweden

 

[Eric G]

Hi Bob,



Well, yes, I'm first and foremost referring to text and fill colors. It's
easy to do the fill with the colors I require, eg entering the RGB values
each time I need to, but it would be more convenient to be able to add the
colors I need to the palette, and just pick them from there.

And as I mentioned in my note to Jay above, I use styles with pre-defined
color setting for heading, table and similar items.

Even though I used Word extensively since the very first version (must be
around 20 years by now) I still learning new tricks and possibilities with
the product. The latest being the use of colors, as I just bought a Phaser
8550 DX printer, that suddenly puts a whole new dimension (and limitations)
to Word.

But, to get back to the subject, if it not possible to add colors to the
palette, so be it, but I had a hope that there might be a trick to it. We'll
see what happens next year (next version, that is).

Thanks for your time and help.

Best regards,


Eric G
Stockholm, Sweden

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Eric,

The fill color palette tracks the use of the last eight
'custom' colors. If you put your corporate identity
colors in normal.dot or other template you use to generate
new documents then those color choices should be there
as well.

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Hi Bob,



Well, yes, I'm first and foremost referring to text and fill colors. It's
easy to do the fill with the colors I require, eg entering the RGB values
each time I need to, but it would be more convenient to be able to add the
colors I need to the palette, and just pick them from there.

And as I mentioned in my note to Jay above, I use styles with pre-defined
color setting for heading, table and similar items.

Even though I used Word extensively since the very first version (must be
around 20 years by now) I still learning new tricks and possibilities with
the product. The latest being the use of colors, as I just bought a Phaser
8550 DX printer, that suddenly puts a whole new dimension (and limitations)
to Word.

But, to get back to the subject, if it not possible to add colors to the
palette, so be it, but I had a hope that there might be a trick to it. We'll
see what happens next year (next version, that is).

Thanks for your time and help.

Best regards,


Eric G >>
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[Eric G]

Hi Bob,

I looked at your suggestion, but cannot find those last 8 "tracked" colors,
not even the 3, I used to test the possibility.

To test, I opened my Normal.dot, created a table with 3 blank cells, filled
each cell with a color (Format > Borders and Shading > Shading > Moer colors

Custom > RGB values) saved the template, removed the table, re-saved and

exited the template.

Then I created a new file based on the Normal.dot template, but this palette
was as empty of custom RGB colors as before, not a single of the 3 colors I
had entered were anywhere to bee seen. I also tested with the font colors,
but no, no tracked colors, apart from the last color used. However, not even
that last one color was retained in the template, between closing of teh
normal.dot to a new document created on it.

Am I missing something here, or am I looking in the wrong places?

I really appreciate any light you can shed on this subject.

Best regards,


Eric G
Stockholm, Sweden

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You are confusing shading colors (which cannot be saved to a custom palette)
with fill colors, which can. Shading is used in tables and other text; fill
is used in AutoShapes (including text boxes).

 

[Eric G]

Suzanne,

You are obviously quite right, my muddled brain. Thanks for putting me
right.

Best regards,


Eric G
Stockholm, Sweden