i too tried this - but no luck On Monday 06 Aug 2007 19:14:01 Brian Barker wrote: > At 13:36 06/08/2007 +0200, Frode Petersen wrote: > >Kenn Goutal wrote: > >>I want to set the background color of some cells to green, > >>but the range of available greens is limited. > >>Some are so dark that it's hard to see the text. > >>(No, I don't want to have to the change the text color > >>every time I change the background color.) > >>Some are eye-searingly bright (e.g. "green 8"). > >>I'm looking for something in the line of a pastel, > >>a color that is green in the way that "yellow 2" is yellow > >>or "orange 4" is orange. > >>Is there a way I can change or add to the colors in the palette? > > > >Yes, in the tools-menu choose settings (or preferences; I use a > >different language, so I'm not sure of which is used). In the dialog > >there is i page under OpenOffice.org called Colors. There you can > >add or modify colors. I don't know if there is a limit on the number > >of colors you can have. > > > >There is one related thing, though, if someone could elaborate on > >it: Some of the colors seem to be standard colors for some > >functionality in the program, like the colors used in graphs. > > > >Is there an overview of which and what they are used for? Are they > >selected on basis of position in the table or on their names? It > >would be good to know which colors are safe to modify and which are not. > > As you say, the nature of the available colours is set at Tools | > Options... | OpenOffice.org | Colours. (Those are the menu names in > my locale.) The colour schemes you mention are in two places: the > colours for display elements in OpenOffice itself (backgrounds, > fields, notes, page breaks, for example) are at Tools | Options... | > OpenOffice.org | Appearance; the default colours for charts are at > Tools | Options... | Charts | Default Colours. (These chart colours > are just defaults, of course, and can be changed in a particular chart.) > > As far as I can see by experiment, the chosen colours in both these > cases are not changed if you modify the colour palette itself (at > Colours); that is, the settings remember the colours themselves and > not their names. That's unless, of course, you return to the > Appearance or Default Colours pages (or to a specific chart) and set > them again, when the new colours will be understood. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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