MS PowerPoint Custom Colours

Microsoft PowerPoint is widely used for presentations, documentation, course materials … really for just about anything that you want to share professionally or personally. While you can add all kinds of effects to a presentation, the colours that you choose are important to the overall aesthetics.  

I got to thinking about Windows colour schemes for system colours, and how  similar shades could be  used.   PowerPoint already provides colours for text, lines and arrows, and shape  "fill" or background, but  to achieve  a variety  of similar colours would be tough.

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Colours in Word 2007, Part 2

Introduction and a Puzzle

In my first post I looked at how new Theme colour references are stored in old Color properties, and how to set and query them but I stopped short of how to translate them into RGB values. Read on! But, first, a puzzle:

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Colours in Word 2007, Part 1

Introduction

Not specifically a new feature, changes to colours have come about with the introduction of a new Themes feature common to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and working with them in VBA requires a bit more knowledge than in the past. In this, the first of two posts based on a longer piece I am writing, I examine Color properties, particularly, but not exclusively, of the Font object; the second part will continue this examination as well as looking at ColorFormat objects for those objects that have them.

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