Customising the colours available in Office applications is best and as you can see here, it is not difficult. I say essential because expecting users to enter RGB numbers is a lot to ask them. If you are using a whole palette of colours, perhaps a corporate colour scheme - this is essential. If you are using a particular colour often, this really is a great little time saver. I also found the following page on the subject, using Group Policies: This means you could distribute this file to all workstations on your network to provide the corporate colours to everyone. I opened Word, clicked Design, looked on the Colors button and yes, my Corporate Colours option was there at the top of the list. I copied the Corporate Colours.xml file to the same folder on another computer with Office 2013.
However, I did discover that the new Colour Theme I created and named "Corporate Colours" in Word, was stored as an XML file like this:Ĭ:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes\Theme Colors\Corporate Colours.xml I am sorry but I have not done this myself so I cannot provide a full explanation here. Hover the pointer over Colors to see which theme you are currently using - as in the example below: In Word, click File, New and Blank Page (or the template you would like to add your custom colour to) NOTE: I'm using Office 2013 / Word 2013 in my example here, in other versions you may find some differences but I hope at least this will help you find your way. Having the colours available easily will make the adoption of the correct colours much easier. This can be very important, imagine your company has it's own corporate colours, shouldn't they be available to everyone as part of the standard colour palette? It's a bit much to expect user to enter custom colours using RGB codes for every document.
I would like to have my custom colour available for all new documents I create. It's the same story for the other Office applications. I have to enter the custom colour every time I start Word. However, when I close and reopen Word, my custom colour has gone. After entering my custom colour it is shown at the bottom of the window in the Recent Colors, so I can quickly select it.
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