We've already established that the old Blue is 0, 0, 255. The problem
is that JCameron says that 0, 0, 255 is producing a different color
in Word 2007.
"Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com> wrote in message
The screentip that says "Blue" is dynamically generated (certainly in
2007). I don't know the algorithm used but many colours could
generate a screentip saying "Blue".
Select a portion of text in your old blue, and go to the "More
Colors" dialog and switch to the Custom tab. There you will see
whatever RGB it is. Then use this as your new (custom) blue.
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Enjoy,
Tony
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If I read JCameron's description correctly, it seems both pieces of
text are in the same document. That eliminates screen display and
printer driver differences.
However, I ran the same experiment -- except that I have both
versions of Word on the same computer -- and there is no difference
between text formatted in 2003 with standard Blue and text created
in 2007 in the same document with a custom [R:0,G:0,B:255] color.
They look the same, and the Find function recognizes them both as
Blue and selects both pieces of text.
JCameron, I'd be interested to see the document that you moved to
2007. If you can email it to me, I'll investigate this evening.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Now that *is* intriguing. Obviously the screen display will depend
on the monitor, but are you printing to the same printer?
OK, I did this test:
1. Created a new Document in Word 2002, made some text the
standard "Blue".
I also verified that "Blue" is defined as [R:0,G:0,B:255] as
Suzanne said it
would be.
2. Saved the document, and Moved it to my Vista Machine and Opened
it in Word 2007.
3. Created a custom color with the definition of [R:0,G:0,B:255],
and created new text of this custom color.
Guess what: the two text colors do not match on the screen nor
when printed.
I'm not so worried about why. I just want to "MATCH" the color
already used
in the existing document.
:
Word 2003's font color Blue *is* RGB 0, 0, 255; this is still
available from
the Font Color dialog in Word 2007 (More Colors), though the
"standard color" labeled Blue in Word 2007 is, as you have said,
different. --
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
That was the first thing I tried. It is not the issue.
I have to match the existing colors in the document which were
default colors provided in Word 2002. The Color "Blue" in the
old Word 2002 is apparently not [Red:0,Green:0,Blue:255].
Additionally, "Blue" is not the only color I need to match.
What I would
like is the exact default color palette offered in older
versions, but I
know
how likely I am to get that request granted.
I could get by if I could examine the color definitions for
existing colored
text.
:
Create a custom colour RGB format Red 0 Green 0 Blue 255
The font colour tool will retain that colour as a 'recently
used' colour
or
you could save the coloured text as a character style for ease
of re-application.
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JCameron wrote:
"I know Engineers! They love to change things."
Dr. Leonard McCoy - Star Trek, The Motion Picture
Our company is now forcing us to upgrade to Vista. All those
problems
aside, it also means we now have to use Word 2007. I am
getting the hang of it, but so much has changed. I'm all in
favor of "New Features", but I need to get work done before I
can pick up all the new stuff.
One problem that I have not yet been able to figure out is
Font Colors. Many of our documents include Special Font
colors to indicate
commands to be typed. In Word 2007 all the preselected colors
are different, so if I add a new line of colored text, I cant
get the exact color to match the rest of the colored text. In
the original document, I did not use a special custom color,
just one of the simple basic colors offered by Word 2002 like
"Blue". In Word 2007 there are many more "Blue" options, but
none of them match the orriginal basic Blue from Word 2002.
The last thing I want to do is go through the entire document
and change all the special text to the "New-Blue".
Any Suggestions?-