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Hate Excel’s colors?

If the answer is yes, you wouldn’t be the first person to complain. The good news is that Jon Peltier developed a free color palette chooser. It is located in the zip file PaletteChooser.zip.

Just unzip and open the file to use. You can then select the palette of your choice by selecting “Custom Palette” from the Format menu.

You can then easily select any of Jon’s pre-formatted color palettes.

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* Hint: Save the file, once you close it, the Custom Palette option disapears.

Thanks for the time saver, Jon!

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Thanks Steve!

1. Sandi on February 5th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Another way within Windows to get away from the bright blue, is to go to Start - Settings - Control Panel - Display. At the Themes tab, you can select the palette that will be applied to all of your Windows applications. As soon as XP came out, I mentioned to a co-worker that the blue was too bright, and she told me I could still use the Windows “Classic” look (dark blue and gray) by selecting Windows Classic this way.

2. Steve Miske on February 5th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Sandi -

Thanks for the plug. Your readers should note that these are just some small changes I’ve made to the palette. They’re not perfect, but they suit me, and anyone can modify them. The colors listed in the Colors worksheet of the PaletteChooser workbook can be adjusted and others added, using the same layout for additional color sets.

3. Jon Peltier on February 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 am

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