How can I add a 'custom colour' to the standard toolbar?

[Guest]

I have created a logo for a my small business and want to use the logo
colours for text within my email/word documents. At the moment I am having to
reenter the RGB details of the colours every time I need to use them. Can I
save my 'customised colours' as permanent choices on my standard colours
selection palette or elsewhere?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have created a logo for a my small business and want to use the logo
colours for text within my email/word documents. At the moment I am having to
reenter the RGB details of the colours every time I need to use them. Can I
save my 'customised colours' as permanent choices on my standard colours
selection palette or elsewhere?

Create a style (either a paragraph style or a character style,
depending on how you plan to use it) and include one of the custom
colors as the font color within the style. Save the style in
Normal.dot so it will be available for all your documents. Repeat for
each custom color you want to use.

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[Crystal]

Hello, I have Word 2007 and don't like the color choices in the font color
palette. I want to make my text the same color blue as a weblink but that
option is not available without clicking several additional times to add a
custom color, which then disappears when I close Word. Is there a way to
permanently add my own colors to the palette? thank you.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could define a character style that uses that color.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Crystal]

thank you but I never use styles. I did however find "themes" under Page
Layout, and there appears to be an option to create new theme colors. do you
know if new theme colors will stay permanently? I haven't had a chance to
experiment with them.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you "never use styles," then you *are* using Normal style and Default
Paragraph Font, both of which are styles. You're just not using them
sensibly. If you want *all* your text to be a specific color, then you could
modify the font of the Normal style (or the document defaults) to use that
color.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Crystal]

The knowledge base in this office varies from power users, to users who still
treat their keyboards like a typewriter and hit hard returns at the end of
each line and 5 blank spaces to indent. Styles are way above the heads of
nearly everyone here. For the most part our staff members create quick
1-page merge documents to mail out notifying defendants of their court dates.
I am a power user and I even have trouble with styles. I have found on the
occasions where I'm working on a lengthy document and try to use styles, they
don't work as advertised. They are not user friendly and are difficult to
create and modify. When I try to modify an existing style, it makes all
sorts of changes I did not want to lines of text I did not want to make
changes to. Also, I create numerous documents that are then converted to
Adobe Acrobat pdf and even though I have made every heading a "heading
style," when I convert the word doc to pdf, not all of the the headings come
across to the pdf as bookmarks and I end up with a bookmark for every 2nd,
3rd, or 5th heading. I then have to go in and manually add the pdf
bookmarks, so all my time messing with styles was in vain. The only people I
have seen who have mastered Word styles are the instructors who teach the
classes and don't have to apply them in the real world.