Color Palette Issue

[Scott McDonald]

I have a user that created a few excel documents on their machine, and is
embedding them in a power point. The cell fill color palette available to
him in one set of cells in this power point are not available to him in
another set.

I opened excel on his machine, checked the color palette and the color he
wants is there, then I copied the cells from powerpoint into that new excel
document and the fill color palette available then was completely different,
the color he wanted that was JUST there is no longer there/available - what
the heck is going on?

Thanks!

Scott

 

[Echo S]

I'm not following exactly what's happening where in your scenario, but I
suspect that the the issue has to do with the color scheme of the slide in
question perhaps coupled with the specific swatches the user chose in Excel.

http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm may help give you a better idea
of what's happening, though.

 

[brian]

Scott,
The Excel color palette (56 colors) stays with the workbook. It does
not travel with a copy and paste. delete the XL table in PPT and copy
and paste it again from the original workbook. It will have those
colors.

Additionally, in the future you can open two workbooks in Excel and
copy the color paletter from one to the other under Tools + Options +
Color

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP