Exactly what did you try and what happened/didn't happen?
2007/8/6, Sakthivel S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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] > > > > -- > rgds, > Sakthivel. S > Clarion Group, Chennai - 20 > Mobile No: 093809 23729 > Known is little - Unknown is ocean > Turn Obstacles into Opportunities. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
