By default, you will see them named Sheet 1, Sheet 2, and so on. Color a spreadsheet tab: Right-click the sheet tab and under Tab Color, just click to apply a new one. Protect a spreadsheet: Right-click the sheet tab and under Protect Sheet, add a password and select your options. Apr 14, 2015 - MS-Word ~ Dark Blue, Text 2, Darker 25%. I've always wanted to know what the Default Font Color of MS-Word was. Dark Blue, Text.
This article picks up where my last article, Working with Colored Text and Backgrounds in Microsoft Office, left off, by offering another tool for working with colored text in the Microsoft Office products.
Depending on your background, you may or may not be aware that, underneath the pretty visual tools that make it so easy to apply colors to your text and the background on which it is drawn, what goes into the document is a numerical code that is converted back into a color for rendering on your video display or your color printer. For most day to day applications, you can afford to let Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook) deal with the codes, without giving them a second thought.
Sooner or later, though, you may be faced with the task of making the colors in something else, such as a clip art image or other object that is going into a document match one or more of the colors used in the document. How do you do that?
After facing this challenge from time to time, I realized that there was an easier way to address it than the tedious way I had been doing so, and set about to make a chart of the colors and their RGB codes, the magic numbers mentioned in the first paragraph. The picture at the top of this article shows most of the working bits of the Microsoft Excel document that displays the chart.
Depending on your immediate needs, the codes may need to be an one of three formats.
The color picker in your paint program probably needs the three color codes for Red, Green, and Blue as three decimal numbers. This is the format of the codes shown in the picture at the head of this article.
Other programs may expect hexadecimal RGB values.
Your Web design tools most likely expect a single six-character hexadecimal string.
All three formats are readily available from the workbook. Just below the color chart is a handy pull-down list of formats, shown in the picture below.
This is a standard Excel validation list; the valid values are displayed in the cells below the drop-down list, which becomes active when you select the cell to the right of the label, 'Select Display Format.' Make your choice, and watch the codes change before your eyes.
The picture above shows the hexadecimal codes, rendered as space separated lists, easily separated for inputting into your image editor or other program.
The far left of the spreadsheet is occupied by a picture of the actual color picker; this is the way it looks in Microsoft Office Excel 2010; the pickers in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook are identical in appearance and function. The main chart is arranged in exactly the same order, but the cells are bigger, to accommodate the formatted color code strings. Though the worksheet is protected, you can select any cell in the table, and hit CTRL-C to get the code into the Windows Clipboard.
Where Can I Get My Own Copy?
MSOColors.XLSX is the standard Microsoft Excel workbook from which the images shown above were captured. If you visited before about 4 PM Central Daylight Time (21::00 UTC), this space discussed a macro-enabled workbook. Overnight, I decided that I should replace that with a conventional workbook, so that nobody need fret over unsigned VBA code.
This change required me to do some additional processing, and resulted in several new named ranges, and one that I left nameless, because all references to it are relative references to individual cells.
To prevent accidental changes that could render the workbook unusable, the workbook and the individual worksheets are password protected. The format selector cell, whose value must be edited to make the workbook useful, is available for editing and selection, and any cell on either worksheet may be selected and copied, so that you can use the Windows Clipboard to move the calculated values to wherever you need them. Unless someone can offer me a compelling reason to disclose it, I intend to keep the password to myself. If you really must know, please contact me privately, and explain why you think you need it.
The other sheet in the book, labeled Index of Named Ranges, on the tab just to the left of the main sheet, is a utility sheet that I pull into any book that contains more than a couple of named ranges, which is most of the books that I create and use. How it gets populated is left as an exercise for the reader, but I'll give you a hint; it's by way of long established standard features of the user interface.
Have fun with the magic color codes!
How to change border color of multiple cells in Excel?
By default, the cell border is gray in Excel. As we know, you can add black border for selections easily. However sometimes the black color may be not fit in the worksheet for some reasons, and it requires changing to other border color. This article will introduce you some tricky ways to change either the border color of all cell in the whole worksheet or multiple cells' border color in selections.
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Change border color of multiple cells of any selection
Sometime you may want to change the cell border color for specific selections for some reasons. And you can do it with following steps:
Step 1: Click the arrow besides the Border button in the Font group under Home tab.
Step 2: In the drop down list, move mouse over the Line color item, and select fit color. See the following screen shot:
Step 3: Then the cursor become a pencil. Please hold down the Ctrl key, and drag pencil through selection that you want to change its cell border color.
Then the border color of all cells in the dragging through ranges is changed to the color that you set in Step 2.
Change border color of all cells in the whole worksheet (gridline color)
Sometimes you may want to change the gridline color or the border color of all cells in the wholes worksheets. You can do it with following steps:
Step 1: In Excel 2010, Click the File >> Option to get into the Excel Option dialog box; in Excel 2007, click the Office button >> Excel Option.
Step 2: In the Excel Options dialog box, click the Advanced button at left bar.
Step 3: Scroll to the Display options for this worksheet section, and select the current working worksheet.
Step 3: Find out the Gridline Color item, and click the Fill color button to change the gridline color.
Step 4: Click OK button.
Then you will see the gridline color is changed to the new set color, that means the border color of all cells in current worksheet are changed to the new set color.
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How to make this gridline color changing permenant for all new excel sheets?
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how do you change the colour and thickness of the actual selection box within excel?
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