Color scales in Word

[Guest]

I am working on a project and to use official colors for my institution I
need to use Pantone or CMYK scales. These scales are not showing in my pull
down menu on the custom color option. Is there a way I can get Pantone and
CMYK color scales added to the menu for customizing colors?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

MS doesn't support either of those in Word directly (Windows is RGB based).

There are 3rd party Pantone add-ins that can do that and there are sites that provide 'equivalents' for these, but online and print
settings aren't going to always be reliably comparable.

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I am working on a project and to use official colors for my institution I
need to use Pantone or CMYK scales. These scales are not showing in my pull
down menu on the custom color option. Is there a way I can get Pantone and
CMYK color scales added to the menu for customizing colors?>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Jay Freedman]

I am working on a project and to use official colors for my institution I
need to use Pantone or CMYK scales. These scales are not showing in my pull
down menu on the custom color option. Is there a way I can get Pantone and
CMYK color scales added to the menu for customizing colors?

No, Word works only in the RGB (or equivalent HSL) color space. There
are CMYK combinations for which there is no exact RGB equivalent, and
vice versa.

Use Google to look up "rgb cmyk conversion" and you'll find many
articles and conversion calculators. For example, read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model and
http://web.forret.com/tools/color.asp.

You'll have to take the CMYK colors of your project and convert them
to the nearest RGB color for input into Word.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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