Here’s the effect in the program interface:Īnother limitation is that if you save a presentation as a Theme (*.thmx) file, custom colors in the presentation don’t get added to the Theme file. Then complete the row of 10 with dummy colors that have a value of FFFFFF and blank as a name: To work around this, add custom colors to form the top row of your columns. Some designers prefer to display the colors in columns instead of rows. (Thanks to reader Kaz for pointing this out.)īy default, the colors appear in 5 rows of 10 colors each. But if you’re seeking to format worksheet text, cell fills or borders, custom colors do not show. In Excel, custom colors display for almost all objects on the Insert tab: Text Boxes, Shapes, SmartArt, Charts, WordArt, etc. The colors appear in the color picker as expected in Word but are partially ignored in Excel.
The combination of themes and custom colors gives you 18 colors per theme to play with, almost enough for the most color-crazed designer.Ĭustom colors can be added to the theme1.xml file in Word and Excel using exactly the same syntax. If you read the last article about color themes, you’ll soon realize that each theme file can have a different set of custom colors that goes with it as well. This list has only 8 colors, but there is room for up to 50 in the custom color area.
This is followed a hexadecimal RGB color value, as used in web design. Here’s what a list of custom colors as seen in the screenshot above would look like in XML:Ī nice feature here is that, unlike color themes, you can actually supply a name for the color. This is followed by our custom color definitions and the closing tag. To add custom colors, we add a new branch to the tree. An unmodified file will only display the self-closing tag.
#POWERPOINT FOR MAC 2011 CREATE A THEME ARCHIVE#
As before, we expand the PowerPoint file (really a zip archive with a different file ending), open ppt/theme, open theme1.xml in a text editor and reflow the text to be humanly readable. Custom colors are the last category in a theme file, so it’s easy to find.
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