Pick a color, any color
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Colors are a lot like food – you probably have a favorite, but When it comes to color in Office of Mac 2011 there’s no |
First, select what you want to apply it to. Then click the small arrow next to any Color button, and make your choice. Choose from the Standard Colors or from a spectrum of Theme Colors based on the currently applied theme.
Or click More Colors, click the magnifying glass icon, and use the color picker to select a color from anything on your screen.
It works the same for object borders and fills. To see the color picker in action, check out this video.
For more information about formatting objects, check out these topics.
- Lowell, Office for Mac training writer
Before you can change the color scheme for your presentation, you need to know which elements are associated with which scheme color category. Is there any information on this for office 2011. The last information I had was from 2002 which was helpful. Since then I have spent way to much time trying to figure this out. Is there anywhere that I can find out the elements associated with the color category?
I was looking for something like this.
background
Base background color for slide. However, if a background fill or image has been applied to the slide, you probably aren’t going to see this color.
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Default background color for charts and graphs
Text and Lines
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Default color for all text entered in placeholders, autoshapes, and text boxes.
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Default color for borders on autoshapes.
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Default color for text and lines on charts and graphs
Shadows
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Default color for autoshape shadows
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Default color for selected text
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Default color for fifth series on charts and graphs
Title Text
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Default color for all title text on slides, charts and graphs
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Default color for sixth series on charts and graphs
Fills
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Default fill used for autoshapes.
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Default fill for first series on charts or graphs
Accent
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Default fill for second series on charts or graphs
Accent and hyperlink
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Default color for unfollowed hyperlinks
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Default fill for third series on charts or graphs
Accent and followed hyperlink
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Default color for followed hyperlinks
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Default fill for fourth series on charts or graphs
It’s great that there are so many colour choices, however in Excel 2011 for Mac the F4 “repeat previous action” is not possible on a Mac. Usually Command+Y will repeat the previous action, but it doesn’t work with colours.