More on Theme Colors in Excel 2013 today as Bill spends more time looking at how to reach the Theme Colors for Office 15 and how to set up your own Themes for use. Follow along with Episode #1680 and learn more about bringing your projects to life with colors that you choose.
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Learn Excel from MrExcel podcast, episode: 1680, Create Custom Theme Colors Hey! Welcome back to the MrExcel netcast. I'm Bill Jelen.
Last week, episode: 1675, I talked about what happened to the office theme colors.
Some great questions, you know, "Where's the pure green?" That was funny, "Blue was reserved for blue screens" and then Ileane, hey, I didn't even realize you could go into colors and create my own themes.
Do you have a tutorial for that?
We'll talk about that today and then Jim, RGB, blue thing is weird if you saved back to 2003, you get a compatibility warning.
All right, so Ileane let's take a look at how we create our own custom colors.
These are the standard office theme in Excel 2013.
If you go to page layout though, there's a colors drop down here where you can change the colors there are used and they have a whole bunch of different colors that are built in but you're allowed to create your own.
If we go to customize colors and the way it works with these six accent colors are the ones that are used in charts and in the cell styles, Accent colors, so we'll go into blue and choose more colors and let's make this be a pure blue.
So 0 red, 0 green and 255 blue.
Click OK I'll do the same thing here.
Let's make this be a pure red.
255, 0, 0. Click OK.
Pure green, so 0, 255, 0 and then you can mix colors obviously.
So let's try and create some sort of purple, with 255 of red, none of green and 255 of blue.
All right now though, I don't really like that So let's just kind of drag the slider here and try and get to a different purple or you know, you can just go to more colors.
Choose from the standard.
There's a lot there or you know just try and click around until you find something that looks good or if you actually, you know, know the actual color like, a lots of times, web colors are six hexadecimal letters, with the first two being anywhere from zero, zero up to FF.
You need to use HEX2DEC, Dec, to convert those to regular numbers but you know, you might have a company color that you know, for example it's 128, 104, 17.
You know, I don't know!
And you can match any color that you would like there and while we're here, hyperlinks appearing in blue.
Well hey, we can just change those back to black and I don't care if I fall the hyperlink or line.
Change those back to black and then we'll create a name, so we'll call this the Ilene theme.
Click Save. All right, and now that we've created that, it's actually, created a file out on our computer and no matter what work will come in.
I create a new workbook here.
I'll just create some data, create a chart.
Click okay, so there's my chart and if I go to page layout, Colors, I can choose Eileen and get those colors that we set up in any workbook on this computer.
So it's a great little feature, being able to create custom with colors.
Now, Jim asked about saving back to excel 2003.
You have to go into File > Options and then under Save, down here, "Preserve visual appearance of the workbook" This colors drop-down, gives us the old Excel 2003 color palette and you don't have to come in here and modify to create the exact same colors that you've created.
They're gonna map the colors in this workbook, to this palette.
So if you created the same six colors here, then we will be able to map perfectly, when you save back to excel 2003.
All right! Well, there you have it.
Custom theme colors in Excel 2010, Excel 2013, actually it stores in Excel 2007 even.
I wanna thank you for stopping by.
We'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
Learn Excel from MrExcel podcast, episode: 1680, Create Custom Theme Colors Hey! Welcome back to the MrExcel netcast. I'm Bill Jelen.
Last week, episode: 1675, I talked about what happened to the office theme colors.
Some great questions, you know, "Where's the pure green?" That was funny, "Blue was reserved for blue screens" and then Ileane, hey, I didn't even realize you could go into colors and create my own themes.
Do you have a tutorial for that?
We'll talk about that today and then Jim, RGB, blue thing is weird if you saved back to 2003, you get a compatibility warning.
All right, so Ileane let's take a look at how we create our own custom colors.
These are the standard office theme in Excel 2013.
If you go to page layout though, there's a colors drop down here where you can change the colors there are used and they have a whole bunch of different colors that are built in but you're allowed to create your own.
If we go to customize colors and the way it works with these six accent colors are the ones that are used in charts and in the cell styles, Accent colors, so we'll go into blue and choose more colors and let's make this be a pure blue.
So 0 red, 0 green and 255 blue.
Click OK I'll do the same thing here.
Let's make this be a pure red.
255, 0, 0. Click OK.
Pure green, so 0, 255, 0 and then you can mix colors obviously.
So let's try and create some sort of purple, with 255 of red, none of green and 255 of blue.
All right now though, I don't really like that So let's just kind of drag the slider here and try and get to a different purple or you know, you can just go to more colors.
Choose from the standard.
There's a lot there or you know just try and click around until you find something that looks good or if you actually, you know, know the actual color like, a lots of times, web colors are six hexadecimal letters, with the first two being anywhere from zero, zero up to FF.
You need to use HEX2DEC, Dec, to convert those to regular numbers but you know, you might have a company color that you know, for example it's 128, 104, 17.
You know, I don't know!
And you can match any color that you would like there and while we're here, hyperlinks appearing in blue.
Well hey, we can just change those back to black and I don't care if I fall the hyperlink or line.
Change those back to black and then we'll create a name, so we'll call this the Ilene theme.
Click Save. All right, and now that we've created that, it's actually, created a file out on our computer and no matter what work will come in.
I create a new workbook here.
I'll just create some data, create a chart.
Click okay, so there's my chart and if I go to page layout, Colors, I can choose Eileen and get those colors that we set up in any workbook on this computer.
So it's a great little feature, being able to create custom with colors.
Now, Jim asked about saving back to excel 2003.
You have to go into File > Options and then under Save, down here, "Preserve visual appearance of the workbook" This colors drop-down, gives us the old Excel 2003 color palette and you don't have to come in here and modify to create the exact same colors that you've created.
They're gonna map the colors in this workbook, to this palette.
So if you created the same six colors here, then we will be able to map perfectly, when you save back to excel 2003.
All right! Well, there you have it.
Custom theme colors in Excel 2010, Excel 2013, actually it stores in Excel 2007 even.
I wanna thank you for stopping by.
We'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
