Custom chart colors

[cliff]

Hi gang,

When I create a chart within PowerPoint (presumably it's actually within
Microsoft Graph), and want to change the color of a bar or pie slice, I am
given a limited range of colors to choose from, and don't have Fill > Custom
color options.

Does MS Graph simply draw its color chips from the color palette and the
most recently-used colors?

Is there a way that I can fill a chart pie slice with a specific Custom
color that is not in the MS Graph selection of chips? Otherwise, would a
workaround be to include an extra slide that contains those four colors,
which would cause those four chips to appear?

 

[Echo S]

You'll need to open MS Graph, go to Tools/Options, and choose color.
Modify one (or more) of the chips on the "main" set of color chips to
match your custom color(s). Then choose those chips when you format that
chart.

Unfortunately, this color modification doesn't "stick," so you'd have to
do it on each and every graph. Ugh. What I do is create one graph in
that manner, then simply copy that slide and change the data for
subsequent graphs.

You know, Excel allows you to pull a graph/spreadsheet color scheme into
another workbook. That's another way around Graph's woeful color
management. If you want specifics on how to do that for Excel, just
holler.

 

[Echo S]

Oh, man, I knew you were gonna ask that, Cliff.

I know I posted about this awhile ago. Hang on a sec...

aha.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...aph+color+group%3Amicrosoft.public.powerpoint

or http://tinyurl.com/v31f (for an easier-to-cut-and-paste URL).

But for those lower 8 chips (red, yellow, green, etc.), I'm pretty sure
those are the default, and that's what you get.

Echo

Thanks Echo!

A related follow-up: when coloring an object, in the Fill > Custom pulldown
menu in PPT 2002, the first row of 8 chips is presumably the Color Scheme,
and the next five rows of 8 chips each are all the recently used colors.
Below that there is another row of 8 chips in a single row - are those also
recently used colors, or is there some way of creating a secondary Color
Scheme?

-Cliff

You'll need to open MS Graph, go to Tools/Options, and choose color.
Modify one (or more) of the chips on the "main" set of color chips to
match your custom color(s). Then choose those chips when you format that
chart.

Unfortunately, this color modification doesn't "stick," so you'd have to
do it on each and every graph. Ugh. What I do is create one graph in
that manner, then simply copy that slide and change the data for
subsequent graphs.

You know, Excel allows you to pull a graph/spreadsheet color scheme into
another workbook. That's another way around Graph's woeful color
management. If you want specifics on how to do that for Excel, just
holler.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi gang,

When I create a chart within PowerPoint (presumably it's actually within
Microsoft Graph), and want to change the color of a bar or pie slice, I am
given a limited range of colors to choose from, and don't have Fill > Custom
color options.

Does MS Graph simply draw its color chips from the color palette and the
most recently-used colors?

Is there a way that I can fill a chart pie slice with a specific Custom
color that is not in the MS Graph selection of chips? Otherwise, would a
workaround be to include an extra slide that contains those four colors,
which would cause those four chips to appear?

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[cliff]

Thanks!!

Oh, man, I knew you were gonna ask that, Cliff.

I know I posted about this awhile ago. Hang on a sec...

aha.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...aph+color+group%3Amicrosoft.public.powerpoint

or http://tinyurl.com/v31f (for an easier-to-cut-and-paste URL).

But for those lower 8 chips (red, yellow, green, etc.), I'm pretty sure
those are the default, and that's what you get.

Echo

Thanks Echo!

A related follow-up: when coloring an object, in the Fill > Custom pulldown
menu in PPT 2002, the first row of 8 chips is presumably the Color Scheme,
and the next five rows of 8 chips each are all the recently used colors.
Below that there is another row of 8 chips in a single row - are those also
recently used colors, or is there some way of creating a secondary Color
Scheme?

-Cliff

You'll need to open MS Graph, go to Tools/Options, and choose color.
Modify one (or more) of the chips on the "main" set of color chips to
match your custom color(s). Then choose those chips when you format that
chart.

Unfortunately, this color modification doesn't "stick," so you'd have to
do it on each and every graph. Ugh. What I do is create one graph in
that manner, then simply copy that slide and change the data for
subsequent graphs.

You know, Excel allows you to pull a graph/spreadsheet color scheme into
another workbook. That's another way around Graph's woeful color
management. If you want specifics on how to do that for Excel, just
holler.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

cliff wrote:

Hi gang,

When I create a chart within PowerPoint (presumably it's actually within
Microsoft Graph), and want to change the color of a bar or pie

slice, I
am

given a limited range of colors to choose from, and don't have Fill

Custom
color options.

Does MS Graph simply draw its color chips from the color palette and the
most recently-used colors?

Is there a way that I can fill a chart pie slice with a specific Custom
color that is not in the MS Graph selection of chips? Otherwise,

would
a

workaround be to include an extra slide that contains those four colors,
which would cause those four chips to appear?

[Image]