CMYK/Pantone custom colors in 2007

[Vicki B]

I have some lettering and shading in a document that I want to match to my
logo. I know I have had the CMYK and Panetone options in the custom color
bar drop down previously, but now all I get is RGB and HSL options. Am I
missing something? Thank you.
Vicki

 

[Jay Freedman]

Sorry to contradict you, but no Office program has ever had built-in CMYK or
Pantone options. They're all RGB-based. Maybe you had a third-party add-in
that provided a translation.

You can find lots of web pages
(http://www.google.com/search?q=cmyk+to+rgb+conversion) that show charts or
formulas for *approximating* CMYK colors with RGB. The CMYK color space is
larger than the RGB color space, meaning that there are CMYK colors that
can't be exactly matched by any RGB color. Read the Conversion section of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model for more information.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Patrice Brel]

Good morning,
I just buy a Word for Mac. In this version (8) I find the Web colors and also the cmyk's. Do you know a third-party which the same for PC? In the 2010 version I have on my PC I only find the RGB and the HSL options.

Thanks a lot

Patrice Brel