Names of the colors in the color schemes

[Rick Altman]

Does anyone have any idea what the "Follow" means in the names of the colors
of each scheme. Follow Accent, Follow Title, Follow Fill...follow who?
Follow the leader? Follow the fold?



Rick A.

 

[Echo S]

Accent and followed hyperlink? Not sure what you're seeing on your end --
can't tell from your description. Which version of PPT?

http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm may help.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Does anyone have any idea what the "Follow" means in the names of the colors
of each scheme. Follow Accent, Follow Title, Follow Fill...follow who?
Follow the leader? Follow the fold?

The tooltips in the fill/line color popups, yes?

If it'd make you happier you have my permission to put whiteout (well, pale
yellow-out) over "Follow" and scribble in "Color this like " or whatever floats
da boat.

Follow the scheme for this color IOW.

 

[Rick Altman]

I refer to the name of each color in the swatch of eight, as described by
the hover text. They all have the word Follow in them, and it makes no
sense. Furthermore, it has been not making sense to me since PowerPoint 97.
I'm just now getting around to whining about it... <g>

 

[Echo S]

Ah. You're talking about the tool tips on, say, the fill color or line color
or text color icon, then.

They all start with "follow" because any object you apply that color to will
follow the color assigned to whatever is mentioned.

So. You create an autoshape on your slide. You select the 3rd color swatch.
That autoshape's color has now been set to follow whatever color you've
assigned to shadows in the slide color scheme. If you choose the 5th swatch,
the autoshape's color will be set to follow whatever color you've assigned
to "fills" in the slide color scheme. And so on.

Although now I see that you're just wondering why the tool tip says "follow
xyz." I guess that's MS shorthand for "this color will change according to
the color you've set in your color scheme." The link I provided earlier
should help explain. I have an example there that shows what happens to
objects -- how they change predictably -- when you've assigned color scheme
colors (aka "follow this color") to them and then apply a different color
scheme to the slides.

 

[Rick Altman]

Thanks, Echo. While I think it is strange vernacular, I will try to, um,
follow the fold from now on...