PPT v2003

Hello. In my projects I find it helpful to create a pallet of color
samples I chose to use. I can then refer to their RGB's or dip my
format painter into one for quick color changes. This goes beyond
Color Schemes because I need more custom colors than it offers, and I
want them to not change. (Color scheme keeps a rolling sample plus a
handful of presents.) Since the early versions of PPT, I've just made
colored boxes on a hidden slide to achieve this. I still use this
technique today and it's fine.

But now I want to make such a color pallet available in my template to
my users who won't be savvy to the box method. I'd like to make a
color swatch pallet like what's in PhotoShop for example. I don't
think there is a way to do this in the native controls.

If I have to use VBA to do this, is there any code out there where
someone already did it so I don't have to re-invent the wheel? <g>

Thank you,
Melina

> PPT v2003
>
> Hello. In my projects I find it helpful to create a pallet of color
> samples I chose to use. I can then refer to their RGB's or dip my
> format painter into one for quick color changes. This goes beyond
> Color Schemes because I need more custom colors than it offers, and I
> want them to not change. (Color scheme keeps a rolling sample plus a
> handful of presents.) Since the early versions of PPT, I've just made
> colored boxes on a hidden slide to achieve this. I still use this
> technique today and it's fine.
>
> But now I want to make such a color pallet available in my template to
> my users who won't be savvy to the box method. I'd like to make a
> color swatch pallet like what's in PhotoShop for example. I don't
> think there is a way to do this in the native controls.
>
> If I have to use VBA to do this, is there any code out there where
> someone already did it so I don't have to re-invent the wheel? <g>

Hi Melina,

PowerPoint 2007 has more colors than 2003: 10 colors plus 5 light and dark
swatches for each of them.

If that is not an option, there is a new Add-In "Corporate Colors Pallette",
which can store up to 20 colors. BUT: It's in German and it's not free. Have
a look here: http://www.pptx.de/tools.html

Best regards,
Ute

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